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TIL That Gangsta's Paradise was based on a Stevie Wonder song. That's why it's one of Coolio's only clean tracks: Wonder didn't want profanity rapped over his song.

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Ma18 TIL when F. Scott Fitzgerald died, he thought he was a failure, and his work forever forgotten. His novel, The Great Gatsby, was reviewed poorly and had only sold 20,000 copies. It’s now considered the greatest novel in American history, and sells over 500,000 copies per year.
xnL5 TIL Ho Chi Minh worked at a pub in West London in 1914
N7BvN TIL Since 2017, when Waymo, began testing self-driving vans in Chandler, Arizona, Police have responded to dozens of calls regarding people threatening and harassing them. People have thrown rocks at Waymos, slashed a tire, chased them, tried to run them off the road and aimed a gun at one of them
jNgWQ TIL that in 2016, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that records which document Israel's arms sales to Rwanda during the 1994 genocide will remain sealed and concealed from the public.
d8P4r TIL In most countries, being born there does not automatically grant you citizenship