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TIL Brazil suffered from Hyperinflation in the 1980s-1990s
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TIL Kevin Smith directed the music video to “Because I Got High” by Afroman
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TIL That many larger mammals, like blue whales and elephants, rarely die from cancer - Referred to as Peto's Paradox - Academic sources in video description
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TIL that Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone which was released 1997, is the only book to have sold more than 100 million copies since The Lord of The Rings which was released 1954-1955
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TIL At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
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TIL that Johnny Cash’s guitar player died in 1968. Cash found himself at a show where the temporary replacement, Carl Perkins, couldn’t make it. An audience member asked Cash if he could fill in for the night, and he said yes. Bob Wootton then became Cash’s guitar player for the next 29 years