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TIL Ray Charles wrote “What’d I Say” by improvising on the spot during a live performance. He needed to fill 12 minutes of time and the song is what he came up with.

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lodNa TIL That in July of 2000, the Taliban banned growing Poppies in Afghanistan, and succeeded in reducing production by 99%. This success was short lived however, ending when the Taliban was overthrown by the United States. Afghanistan poppies now account for roughly 90% of the global heroin trade.
DQeKj TIL about John Rabe. A German representative in China who used his Nazi credentials and influence to save 200,000 Chinese citizens from being slaughtered by Japanese forces in 1937 during the Nanjing Massacre.
yBPp TIL that the winter crew of Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station watches The Thing (1982) on the first day of Winter, every year.
MeOgm TIL the existence of the texas horned lizard, a lizard that throws blood stream from its eyes to defend itself.
YaBx TIL Walmart lobbies congress to raise the minimum wage in order to impose higher costs on smaller competitors.