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TIL Wendy Williams is NOT the lead singer of the Plasmatics

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VBjAB TIL the term “red tape” comes from the historical practice of using red ribbons or tape to bind official documents. This practice dates back to at least the 16th century in Spain.
R79Va TIL drug traffickers launder funds from the US to Mexico largely through fashion wholesalers based in the fashion district of downtown Los Angeles.
E1Qpd TIL that a baseball game between the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers in 1974 featured unlimited beer for ten cents a cup. This led to an angry, drunken mob of Indians fans attacking the Rangers with knives, chains and folding chairs, forcing both teams to fight them off with baseball bats.
dDvk8 TIL the Free French general Henri Giraud resented the British so much, he refused to board the escape submarine HMS Seraph. Thus the submarine became USS Seraph, received an American co-captain, and the crew affected American accents.
VK6p TIL there is a modern-day Rosetta Stone that intends to be an archive of human languages called the Rosetta disk. While it is only 3 inches in diameter, it has over 1,500 languages etched onto its surface. It has over 13,000 pages of information which need to be magnified 1000 times to be read.