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TIL that , "Wet" by Snoop Dogg was specifically recorded for Prince William of Wales

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y4pM TIL Phantom of the Opera is the top-grossing piece of entertainment of all time. It has earned $5.6 billion during it’s 10,000+ performance run.
9gEM TIL that the Greek mathematician Archimedes was killed during the siege of Syracuse when he refused to acknowledge his Roman captors because he was too engrossed in solving a math problem.
rKe4 TIL that in Georgia (the country) there are mountain passes that have been used by invading armies so many times that the farm houses have fortified towers.
OoO74 TIL that not only did then-future Supreme Court Justices William Rehnquist & Sandra Day O'Connor date during their time at Stanford Law School, but he actually asked her to marry him as well. She turned down his proposal. 30 years later, however, they found themselves serving on the Court together.
N7v7N TIL that a group of reporters submitted a computer generated fake 'research' paper to a scientific journal... and it was published.