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TIL that "Old Town Road" is based around a sample from Nine Inch Nails. Trent Reznor is listed as one of the songwriters.

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jdXv TIL that West African countries supply more than 70% of the world’s cocoa market, using child labor, and in some cases slavery , to supply international giants such as Hershey’s, Mars and Nestlé .
9Yl4M TIL The Roman Catholic Church stated in 1950 that there is no intrinsic conflict between Christianity and Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
RmB9 TIL non-functional thermostats are used in many office buildings across the United States. These “placebo” thermostats are instead installed to give employees an illusion of control.
VM8jD TIL the Soviet Union has its own top level domain country code (.su) that is still in use today with over 100,000 registered domains
WPPd TIL Lyndon Johnson announced his hiring of Gerri Whittington, the first African-American White House secretary, by arranging for her to appear on the TV game show What’s My Line, wherein contestants attempted to guess her profession.