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TIL 4Kids Entertainment censored Sonic X in United States!

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R58ow TIL about Mansa Musa, 9th Mansa of the Mali Empire and candidate for richest person in history. Mansa Musa presided over Mali's 14th Century golden age, when it traded across the Sahara with Europe and Egypt and made Timbuktu a centre of Islamic learning and scholarship.
R0K7 TIL: There is something called sleep debt and if you do not reduce the debt you can experience worsened vision, impaired driving, and trouble remembering. Long-term effects include obesity, insulin resistance, and heart disease.
awagy TIL The Liberty Bell was made by a company that was started in 1570, and only closed in 2017
wL6YJ TIL of Salt-Rising Bread: a bread which replaces yeast with Clostridium Perfringens, a bacteria that is the 3rd most common cause of food poisoning in the US.
XEVvX TIL The opening scene to the series MASH was filmed in the exact same canyon and location where Kobe Bryant's chopper went down.