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TIL Dr. Dre is donating all of his artist royalties earned from Compton, his first album in 16 years, to help fund a new performing arts and entertainment facility in Compton.

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QJnOM TIL that The Netherlands (where I live) has two old Volcano’s. One of which they recently found (not this one). Never imagined we’d have Volcano’s here, and never learned that in school, although it makes perfect sense of course. Thought it was pretty cool to have volcano’s.
4ko6X TIL that due to the way 1912-era wireless telegraphs worked, when they found obscure second-class Titanic passenger Niqula Nasrallah’s remains the press briefly believed they were those of internationally famous millionaire John Jacob Astor, who’d been in first class.
GYkng TIL: Ducklings have two sets of visual memory, able to recognise images in one eye that they don't recognise in the other.
69yam TIL there are parrot species native to Australia and that it's not just South America where they can be found
WnxA TIL of “lesbian bed death”. Studies have found that lesbian couples have less sex than any other relationship, apparently because the sex drive of women in secure relationships declines.