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TIL when Ol’ Dirty Bastard recorded his part on Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy”,he arrived at the studio 3 hours late and drunk.He’d record 1 line and sleep for an hour.At the video shoot,he told the label he needed clothes.He tried to buy Louis Vuitton luggage with the corporate credit card he was given.

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GYe5G TIL in 2009, police in San Jose, California engaged in a 17-hour standoff with an empty house.
KZw6 TIL that the croissant, due to a legend that it was created to celebrate Christian victories over Islam, has been banned by some Islamic fundamentalists.
yVjrV TIL that the creator of Wonder Woman, William Marston, was a psychologist who was famous for inventing the lie detector. He was also a BDSM enthusiast and a firm believer in the superiority of women, stating that Wonder Woman was an allegory for the type of woman he believed should run the world.
QJVLk TIL that bumblebees can fly higher than Mount Everest. It’s difficult for most insects and birds to fly at extremely high altitudes where the air is thin and oxygen is scarce but researchers were able to track some bumblebees that were able to fly at more than 9000 metres.
b9mDQ TIL that pop-up ads were created by Ethan Zuckerman and he issued an apology for ever creating them in 2014.