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TIL Dr. Dre didn’t know Eminem was white until they met in person

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d84ed TIL that in 1934, a group of Wall Street bankers planned to create a militia and overthrow President Roosevelt in a military coup d'état
4Po6 TIL the flags of Monaco, Indonesia, Alsace, Vienna, Salzburg, Hesse, and the Swiss canton of Solothurn are essentially identical, differing only in proportion.
R5Vyw TIL Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood. Two hearts pump blood to the gills, while the third circulates it throughout the body. Their blood is blue due to a copper-based molecule, efficient in cold, low-oxygen environments.
epOkn TIL ; A colony of bees can visit up to 50 million flowers each day
E1Lpx TIL that the city of Baltimore used flogging as a punishment till 1938. People were sent to the whipping post for one crime only; wife beating. This punishment was used because wife beaters often escaped conviction, as their wives simply couldn't afford to send the husband/breadwinner to jail.