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TIL Michael Jackson was featured on an Eddie Murphy track. “Whatzupwitu” was voted as the third worst music video of all time by MTV in 1999.

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oBpvr TIL that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry met on a blind date arranged by a mutual, female friend
R7OA1 TIL gasoline is a byproduct of distilling crude oil for kerosine. Originally it was discarded. It wasn’t Until 1892, with the invention of the automobile, that gasoline was recognized as valuable.
7809x TIL that, during the African humid period (late Pleistocene to early Holocene), Sahara was an open grass savannah with shrubs and trees, lakes and rivers, populated with crocodiles, frogs and baboons
BV5L TIL that when Nazi troops conquered Paris, the Kaiser (living in exile) sent Hitler a telegram saying “Congratulations, you have won using my troops.”
DQaYe TIL A 30 year old woman in Nazi occupied Norway was struck by shrapnel and developed a strong German accent causing her to be shunned in the first recorded case of Foreign Accent Syndrome.