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TIL that there are 11,842 lakes in the state of Minnesota. More than the entire continent of Africa.

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R7rJa TIL that in 2015, Prince voiced his dislike of record labels saying "Record contracts are just like — I'm gonna say the word – slavery." He concluded "I would tell any young artist ... don't sign." At the time he advocated seeing artists paid directly from streaming services, cutting out middlemen.
WAa9 TIL that a chimera is when a fetus absorbs its twin and is born with two sets of DNA.
b9yn7 TIL authors of the NUCLEAR WINTER hypothesis, Carl Sagan and Richard P. Turco, conceded to significantly scale back their theory after much criticism from specialized experts, including exaggerated numbers of dust and ash which wouldn't be the case from airburst nukes.
a8xEM TIL unique clown makeup is memorialized on eggs in a museum; it’s a soft copyright method to prevent plagiarism
lo59K TIL that in 2015, the State of New York conducted DNA tests on popular supplements and found that in 4 out of 5 cases the pills contained nothing more than filler