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TIL that “Confessions Part II” was Jermaine Dupri’s experience with cheating and getting another woman pregnant, and not Usher’s.

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9bmB TIL that in a 2002 Muppet Christmas movie where Kermit sees the world as if he never existed, the twin towers are visible.
5YZVn TIL about the origin story of mosquitoes from the Tlingit tribe of Alaska. A young man got revenge on a cannibal which had killed his two older brothers while they were out hunting. After he burned the cannibal's body into ashes, he blew on the ashes and they flew off, turning into mosquitoes.
69PJZ TIL: Over the past 3 years gambling addiction has grown by 30% according to the National Council on Problem Gaming (NCPG) with online betting, sports betting, slots, table games, and mobile gambling coupled with the pandemic. The "social cost" of gambling is estimated to be $7 billion annually.
Z8NLD TIL Sudan has more than 200 pyramids dating back to 5,000 years, some of them are at the risk of being buried by shifting sand dunes
l7EK5 TIL that Alaska and Hawaii have the same record high temperature (last paragraph of article)