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TIL Gangsta's Paradise is just a cover with some changed lyrics of the song Pastime Paradise by Stevie Wonder

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4Xelg TIL When mother otters dive for food, they tie their babies into kelp to ensure that they will not float away
epEQD TIL that any shape made entirely of straight lines can be made from a folded piece of paper and a single straight cut. (Fold and cut theorem) (VSauce short)
dDR9Q TIL that the United States and Spain fought a mock battle in the Philippines in order to prevent Filipinos from taking the city of Manila. The two countries managed to lose a total of 68 soldiers in the fake battle.
XEXKj TIL many puzzle manufacturers reuse the dies which cut their puzzles into pieces, so pieces from one can fit into another. And one man has turned this into an art.
EReP TIL that North Korea did not return tens of thousands of South Korean POWs after the Korean War in 1953. They and their children were forced to work in coal mines for decades; 79 escaped from 1994 to 2009. Nine hundred US soldiers also may not have been returned.