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TIL that before she was famous, Nicki Minaj was fired from approximately fifteen jobs for discourtesy to customers.

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K70a TIL that Elvis Presley wanted to record “I will always love you”, but Dolly Parton turned him down because she refused to give up half the publishing rights.
E1ejd TIL about the oldest trees in the world, the oldest one ever found known as Prometheus located in Nevada, which lived for approx 5000 years until it was cut by a graduate student and United States and Forest Service for other research purposes unknowing of the history of the tree.
R5enl TIL Stone-age people were making porridge 32,000 years ago
e0jx6 TIL that, in violation of its own non-segregation policy, the U.S. military secretly complied until the 1980s with Iceland's request that black American soldiers not be stationed in Iceland
4ZJg TIL a man was swallowed whole by a sperm whale, but found 18 hours later and survived.