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TIL Will Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith is the lead singer of a Heavy Metal band called Wicked Wisdom

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4kwn6 TIL Urine was injected into rabbits in the 30s to test for a woman's pregnancy.
1OAr TIL that in 1953, Iran had a democratically elected prime minister. The US and the UK violently overthrew him, and installed a west friendly monarch in order to give British Petroleum - then AIOC - unrestricted access to the country’s resources.
lmVA TIL of Pope Fabian who served as Pope from 236-250. During the election he was not under any serious consideration until a dove landed on his head which signaled to everyone present that the Holy Spirit had marked him as the next Pope
4XK9J TIL in 2008 the council of the British city of Birmingham printed 360,000 leaflets that featured an image of the skyline of Birmingham, Alabama. The council then said that it was meant to be a "generic skyline picture".
nelWB TIL the first time the Flash raced Superman, they made sure the race ended as a tie so that none of the gangsters that had bet on the race made any money