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TIL WMDs were found in Iraq after all.

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o4bY TIL that when The Artist Formerly Known As Prince changed is name to the ‘Love Symbol’ in 1993, Warner Bros. had to organize a mass mailing of floppy disks with a custom font in order to use the symbol in print media.
bxg7 TIL Matt Stone and Trey Parker Paid $300,000 Themselves So Paramount Pictures Wouldn’t Force Them To Have Kidd Rock Make a Song for The South Park Movie For MTV in 1999.
p8kbZ TIL that alexandrite, a gemstone found in the Ural mountains, will shine different colours if it is viewed under natural or artificial light
6EYbQ TIL that on July 2, 1963, five weeks after setting a new world record in the pole vault, twenty year old Brian Sternberg broke his neck on a trampoline, after he landed awkwardly on his neck and was left a quadriplegic.
l8KV TIL tall men are more likely to have children and be in relationships than short men.