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TIL Prince hired Kevin Smith to make a documentary about him and then locked it away in a vault.

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P1LlZ TIL the UN has each decade's international focus and concerns predecided.
1mO8 TIL Arab and Somali merchants tricked the Romans and Greeks into thinking cinnamon came from Somalia, when in reality, they were exploiting them by importing it from India and selling it to North Africa and Europe for far higher prices.
9w4D TIL that the invention of tea bags was an accident/misunderstanding. Tea was meant to be removed from the bags before being used, but nobody told the first recipients that…
GYnB7 TIL that in the mid 1800s people believed that travelling by train could cause insanity due to the high speeds.
JPg4 TIL that only 2.8% of Oklahoma High School Students passed a citizenship test, students in Phoenix did better at 3.5% in the same education poll