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TIL Michael Clarke Duncan was Notorious BIG’s bodyguard.

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j68rv TIL an estimated number of 10'000 Londoners died from smog in 1952.
v1yx4 TIL that in the Roman Empire "Black people were generally not excluded from any profession, and there was usually no stigma or bias against mixed race relationships in Antiquity."
0w8e1 TIL the state of California produces half of the fruit and vegetables consumed in the US, as well as 99% of artichokes and walnuts and 95% of garlic.
LkQ6r TIL of the Mondragon Corporation, a Basqué company of >70000 workers that operates as a worker's cooperative. It exists as a quasi socialist enterprise in a capitalist system.
0wN9N TIL There is an artificial hill in Italy, over 100 feet tall, made entirely of empty olive oil pots, carefully placed over a period of 250 years by ancient Romans.