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TIL Prince’s official 1987 “Black Album,” was supposed to be his hardest/most aggressive effort. Before its release, he withdrew the album, after a bad ecstasy experience — one which led him to believe that he’d be committing an act of evil if he unleashed such dark-sounding music upon the world.

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xM7w TIL over 3500 unpublished whistleblower communications, including the US government’s No Fly List, 5 GB of Bank of America leaks, and insider information from 20 right-wing organizations were once in possession of Wikileaks…until the files were destroyed by the departing spokesperson.
OoEN1 TIL in 1826, a restaurant called Atwood & Bacon Oyster House opened in Boston in a building that was already more than 100 years old at the time. Today, it’s called Union Oyster House and is the oldest continuously operating restaurant in the US.
R5ND9 TIL: Until as recently as 2020, tattoos in Japan could only be legally performed by licensed medical professionals. South Korea still has this restriction.
raEd TIL that thanks to relatively few traffic lights, lots of roundabouts, and a very intensive driver training requirement, the UK has the lowest road death (per capita) of any country in the developed world.
mevO TIL that undercover investigators from the Government Accountability Office set up a shell company, and received a license for the radioactive materials needed for a dirty bomb, all without any inquiries from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.