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TIL that Priority Records began as a joke music label in the 1980s, created solely to sell records for the fictional R&B group The California Raisins. After the success of the commercials, they signed NWA and released Straight Outta Compton

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OGa74 TIL of Togo Heihachiro a Japanese admiral, who helped defeat Russia in 1905. Heihachiro believed he was the reincarnation of Horatio Nelson and was so admired that upon his death, the navies of the UK, USA, France, Netherlands Italy and China all honoured him.
Mep9a TIL about the Digital Wellbeing feature offered by android, wherein you can, among other things, switch on Focus Mode with distracting apps paused, keep track of time spent on apps, have work related apps switched off at home and do many other things to manage your time and mind space.
8apwa TIL Archduke Franz Ferdinand's marriage was morganatic, and so his wife could only be honored as royalty during military inspections, which he did many of out of love for his wife. He and his wife were eventually assassinated while making a military inspection, which started WWW1 (and led to WW2).
WGk9 TIL In 2009, Oklahoman cops tasered an 86-year old disabled woman in her bed for taking a ‘more aggressive stance’. There made sure she would not resist further by stepping on her oxygen line until she couldn’t breathe.
lomBV TIL of "Psychogenic death" - when a person gives up on life mentally and dies usually within days. The phenomenon occurs when someone experiences a trauma they feel they cannot escape, and the person views death as their only option.