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TIL that when Prince released his single titled Breakfest Can Wait, he used a picture of comedian Dave Chapelle on the cover, who was dressed up as Prince serving pancakes, taken from the famous 2004 sketch on the Dave Chapelle Show.

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lowK1 TIL that Wayne Gretzky is the only Hockey player to have scored over 200 points in a season, and did so a total of four times. His stunning success as a Hockey player was immortalized in the fact that not only did is own team retire 99, Gretzky's Jersey number, but the league as whole did as well!
OG4ne TIL that India holds the title for the highest number of vegetarians globally, largely attributed to the religious beliefs of the majority Hindu population. Hinduism promotes abstaining from meat consumption as it's believed to foster positive spiritual energy.
j65mj TIL An endling is the last known individual of a particular species or subspecies. After the endling the species becomes extinct, never to walk the earth again. The first known use of the word endling occurred in an issue of the scientific journal Nature on April 4,1996.
eLpD TIL: Claude Shannon know as Father of Information Theory, also founded Digital Circuit Theory which triggered the Digital revolution, but was oblivious to the marvels created because of it as he was suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease.
KY6a9 TIL the international "A-series" of paper sizes is based on the square root of 2, so folding a sheet in half along the long edge will always result in the exact same proportions.