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TIL that Alaska was bought for $7.2m (~$150m today)

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Yp8rW TIL that Singapore is the most food secure country in the world, with Venezuela coming in last place
X0opX TIL that Laurel & Hardy and the Our Gang kids reshot each film for foreign audiences by phonetically reciting their lines in the foreign language
W7wwX Today I Learned that millennial dads are spending 3 times as much times with their kids than their fathers spent with them. Back in 1982 43% of fathers admitted they'd never changed a diaper. Today that number is down to about 3%.
Eg510 TIL that Clement Vallandigham was a lawyer who accidentally shot himself demonstrating how someone could accidentally shoot themself
BggAb Today I learned about “Yu-Mex”music. A genre of music popular during the 1950s and 1960s in Yugoslavia which incorporated elements of traditional Mexican music. Yugoslavian musicians were known to don sombreros in their performances.