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TIL that Trader Joe’s is owned by the Aldi Group.
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TIL Michael Jackson couldn't read or write music. Instead, he fully realized music in his head and recorded himself singing the different parts on a cassette recorder.
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TIL that out of the 13 official Disney Princesses, only Tiana from The Princess and the Frog was born in the United States. She was born around 1910 in New Orleans. While Pocahontas was born around 1596 in what is now Virginia, the United States didn’t exist at the time.
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TIL Paro Airport in Bhutan is so dangerous that only eight pilots are qualified enough to land there. (Pilots maneuver between mountains, fly within feet of houses, and land on a narrow, 6,500-foot runway.)
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TIL in 1700 King Louis XIV was the 1st king to tax the upper classes in French history as prior to this the rich would receive tax exemptions from previous kings
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TIL that Throughout the 1950s to the 1970s, the CIA operated a passenger airline company called Air America, which was responsible for allowing the US military access to places in Southeast Asia the Geneva Convention had banned the military from.