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TIL the United States Bureau of Land Management released a promotional hip-hop song and music video in the 1990s.

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VMkG0 TIL In 1874, The Munich physics professor Philipp von Jolly advised Max Planck against going into physics, saying, "in this field, almost everything is already discovered.
N7rd1 TIL a journalist who reported on his own serial murders was caught when he including facts in his articles that only the killer would have known.
R7rB7 TIL that when Alexey Pajitnov invented Tetris in 1984, he earned no royalties for it due to living under the Soviet government. It was only in 1996, after he moved to the United States and founded The Tetris Company, that he started making money off of it.
Z0Ba TIL there is a bone fragment displayed on a museum of Chinon that was once reputed to belong to Joan of Arc. An 2008 study showed that the bone actually came from an Egyptian mummy
pNV8 TIL U.S. Pennies dated 1944 - 1946 were minted with rifle and artillery-shell casings from WWII.