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TIL Toto - Africa is about "A white boy that is trying to write a song on Africa, but since he's never been there, he can only tell what he's seen on TV"

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4N1X TIL From 1995-2000 a man stole the pieces to the top winning prizes from McDonald’s Monopoly and gave them to associates which claimed and shared the prizes totaling over $24M. One year he sent the $1M piece to a Children’s Hospital, although against the rules, McDonald’s honored the prize.
JYX08 TIL: Chickens' heads are gyroscopic. Move their bodies but their heads stay steady.
e0L1D TIL the Endurance Expedition crew was shipwrecked and stranded in the Antarctic in 1914 for two years, and miraculously the entire crew survived.
8aOPX TIL that Scatman John had a lifelong stutter and he wrote his eponymous song as a message to other people who stuttered
V0JZ TIL a jury of 6 whites and 6 blacks ruled in 1999 that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy, most likely by the police and CIA, and covered up by the FBI.