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TIL "Don't Mess With Texas" started as a slogan for an anti littering campaign

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KOkpJ TIL the most expensive ZIP code is not in Beverly Hills, but Atherton, California. The median home sale there is over $7 million USD, which is 63% higher than the second most expensive ZIP code (Sagaponack, New York).
nWGBd TIL the leader of the Crips, Stanley “Tookie” Williams wrote a children’s book in prison about anti gang violence. He was nominated for 4 Nobel Prizes for what he did to stop gang violence and was nominated for the Nobel prize For Literature once for this book.
69lD7 TIL that on February 19 2014, Omaha spree killer Nikko Jenkins filed a federal lawsuit seeking $24.5 million from the State of Nebraska for wrongfully releasing him from prison
ZRQY TIL that Jefferson had his own version of the bible that omitted the parts of the bible that were “contrary to reason” including the resurrection and other miracles. He was only interested in the moral teachings of Jesus and nothing more.
Bg7xW TIL Ernie Hudson, who played Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters movies, was rejected from a role in the Ghostbusters cartoons because they thought he didn't sound like Winston Zeddemore