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TIL that Bruno Mars wrote "F*** You" for Ceelo Green.

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Xogk TIL that the cell nucleus is probably an ancient virus that invaded a primitive cell and remained there symbiotically.
a8jLN TIL in the 5th century, a Chinese missionary named Hui Shen claimed to have found a land east of China called Fusang. It is now theorized that Fusang may have actually been North America, due to archeological similarities between the California coast and Fusang as depicted by Asian sources.
wd1o TIL Americans killed by cops now outnumbers Americans killed in the Iraq War.
gMnKD TIL the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs created a line of freshwater caves. The Mayan culture was able to rise in the normally freshwater-poor Yucatan directly as a result of that meteor.
B7lk TIL in 1912, Japan sent the USA some Japanese Cherry Trees as a sign of their blossoming friendship. After WW2, Japan’s Cherry Trees were weak and sick so the USA sent a bunch of them back to reinvigorate their trees!