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TIL the 9th monarch of Thailand was an accomplished jazz saxophonist

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b98Z4 TIL the CCP has 90.5 million members.
4X8Vb TIL that in the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix, Jaguar fitted $300k diamonds to fronts of two of their Formula 1 cars to advertise “Ocean’s Twelve”. One of the cars crashed on the first lap, and the diamond, uninsured due to the nature of the stunt, was, and still remains, lost.
xVpW5 TIL: John Cadbury, the founder of Cadbury Chocolate. When he first started his buisness in 1824, he hired a Chinese worker in traditional Chinese clothing because he believed it would attract more customers
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