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TIL that fetal death rates in Flint, MI have increased 58% due to unresolved water issues.

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vwgD TIL: Sting earns 100% of the royalties ($2000 a day) from Puff Daddys’ song ‘I’ll be missing you’, because Puff Daddy didn’t ask permission to use the sample from 'Every breath you take’
P1aAn TIL that the religious group known as the Shakers are completely celibate and cannot have children, so they can only gain new members by converting outsiders. As a result, there were only two people in the last existing Shaker community as of 2020, although they gained a single new member in 2021.
p88BN TIL It only takes 13 people to run the Spam factory
vP6E8 TIL when guitarist Carlos Santana heard the song “Rumbalero” by his son, Salvador, he had to Shazam it to find out it was his own son's music as he didn’t recognize it. Carlos then requested permission from his son to re-record the song for his 2021 album and his son thought he was kidding at first.
GYavN TIL in 1946, the United States tried to buy Greenland for $100,000,000