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TIL 2Pac’s double-platinum posthumous album “Loyal to the Game” was composed and produced entirely by Eminem, with 100% of royalties going to Tupac Shakur’s mother.

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69vOY TIL before Queen Margrethe Danish Monarchs had an uninterrupted line of kings named Christian followed by a Frederik since 1513. Margrethe succeded a Frederik so in keeping with the tradition, she's considered a "Christian" so her successor will be Frederik X
W7ggN TIL Saint Catherine was tortured on a wheel by the Emperor Maxentius for refusing to renounce her Christian faith. The wheel broke and Catherine was eventually beheaded instead. Her martyrdom is remembered in the firework called the 'Catherine Wheel'.
16n1d TIL that strong evidence points to a black hole at the center of our own, and most other galaxies.
RGkj TIL: The Texas Railroad Commission Has Nothing to do With Railroads. It Regulates Oil and Gas in the State and Maintains its Name to Avoid Critical Oversight.
e0VlL TIL that in 1895 a white man in Louisiana was lynched by a white crowd for an attempt to lynch a black woman