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TIL Erykah Badu's mother, the person the song Ms Jackson by Outkast was written about, reportedly loved the song, "Baby, she bought herself a 'Ms. Jackson' license plate. She had the mug, she had the ink pen, she had the headband, everything."

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dnBE TIL that famed pharaoh Sesostris would erect a giant statue of a vagina if he felt a defeated army had offered little resistance
8ew8b TIL that Dubai's Burj Khalifa has no sewage system - so trucks have to pump out poo every day
ADkJ7 TIL HBO had to hire a team of 160 lawyers before releasing its film "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief" beause of the Church's litigious nature
xne7 TIL in 2009, Bill Gates gave a presentation on mosquitoes and malaria. After he explained the severity of the disease and how it’s transmitted via mosquitoes, he ended his presentation by releasing a swarm of mosquitoes into the audience.
Do7J TIL people in Churchhill, Manitoba(Canada), never lock their car doors in case anyone has to escape polar bears.