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TIL One of the thirteen articles in the 1781 US Articles of Confederation states that if Canada wants to be admitted into the United States, it will automatically be accepted.

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Z6Q4 TIL that Kenny G’s last name is Gorelick. He also has the ability to “circular breath” and held a note for over 45 minutes.
VVX0 TIL of a comic series in which Superman was raised in the Soviet Union and was the champion of the common worker who fights a never-ending battle for Stalin, socialism, and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact.
jDkR TIL approximately 25% of all black swan pairings are between homosexual males. Some couples are so eager for cygnets that “They steal nests, or form temporary threesomes with females to obtain eggs, driving away the female after she lays the eggs”.
rNYWM TIL the Moche civilization of Peru developed a batteryless electroplating technique during the first few centuries AD to deposit a thin layer of gold over copper
rR840 TIL "Seven Great Singing Stars" dominated the Chinese pop music industry in the 1930s and 1940s, which was centered in Shanghai. After 1949, the Communist Party of China denounced Shanghai popular music as Yellow Music, a form of pornography