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TIL the mom of the baby on the cover of Biggie Small's "Ready to Die" album had a difficult time getting other baby modeling gigs because of his enormous, ultimately iconic afro

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9YMmQ TIL Converse sneakers have a thin layer of felt on their soles so they can be legally classified as 'slippers.' Import tariffs on shoes in the US can be as high as 37.5%, but only 3% for slippers.
yKea TIL Wyclef Jean sat through 2 Girls 1 Cup without looking away or showing any apparent reaction, all while eating corn on the cob
KOGRQ TIL about the "gringo tree". So named because when exposed to he sun it becomes red and peeling.
xej1 TIL in the original game of Clue, Mr. Green was actually called Reverend Green. The name was changed because they felt Americans would be upset at the idea of a priest being a murderer.
1aAW7 TIL that Facebook shut down a pair of its artificial intelligence robots, nicknamed Alice and Bob, after they started talking in their own created language.