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TIL that in 2004 Eminem dissed Michael Jackson on 'Just Lose it', in 2007 MJ responded by buying all of Eminem's Publishing

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9VGG TIL Martin Luther King Jr’s mother was assassinated by a gunman while she was playing the organ in church.
e0xrL TIL in 1916, German spies blew up a munitions depot at Black Tom Island in New Jersey, killing five people. The explosion was registered at 5.5 on the Richter scale—30 times more powerful than the World Trade Center collapse on 9/11. So loud that it shook buildings in five states as far as Maryland.
p8djO TIL Quaker Oats 35% Less Sugar Oatmeal contains 35% less oatmeal per packet, despite being the same price as the regular version
W7VY9 TIL that some Renaissance painters were fascinated by Jesus's penis
9wLZQ TIL 91 people who worked on the 1956 film The Conqueror including Susan Hayward and Agnes Moorehead died from cancer. It may have been caused by radiation because they filmed near nuclear sites.