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TIL it’s a complete coincidence that the word “emoji” resembles “emotion”. It simply comes from the Japanese words e (“picture”) and moji (“character”).

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8JMP TIL when Tracy Morgan was unavailable to finish recording the full-length version of “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” for 30 Rock, Donald Glover stepped in and completed the verses in his impression of Morgan. Glover also voices the ‘producer’ on the track.
Lk0jd TIL The cleaning up of WW1 battlefields is still ongoing and some estimate it will take 300-700 more years to complete. However there are also some areas which are so toxic 99% of animals and plant life cannot survive.
mxVwP TIL that Canada sent 50 beavers to Argentina in 1946, but now number over 100,000 and are destorying Argentina's forests.
MR0B TIL the US ZIP Code 12345 belongs to the main corporate campus of General Electric. GE receives thousands of Santa letters each year from kids believing it would make most sense for Santa’s workshop to have 12345 as his ZIP code.
jNlKE TIL that Vanilla Ice used Queen and David Bowie's Under Pressure song baseline for his one-hit wonder Ice Ice Baby but didn't pay any royalties to Queen or Bowie. After facing a lawsuit, he then claimed he purchased the song Under Pressure in an interview, only to be corrected by a Queen spokesman.