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TIL The Parental Advisory sticker eventually came into being after Tipper Gore heard her 11-year old daughter listening to Prince’s “Darling Nikki”, causing her to co-found Parents Music Resource Center

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p81wQ TIL Steve Jobs was fired from Apple by the CEO that he hired. He then moved on to create NeXT, bought Pixar, then became CEO of Apple.
R7jQQ TIL that President Lincoln personally selected the Dakota who were hanged in the largest mass execution is US history.
xV5ng TIL that Harvest Mice like crawling into flowers to eat the pollen and sometimes even fall asleep in them.
77rr TIL Godwin’s Law: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1”
6MGl TIL that, in the late 980’s, Vladimir the Great chose to Christianize Russia rather than Islamisize it partly due to Islam’s ban on alcohol, saying, “Drinking is the joy of the Rus’, we can’t go without it.”