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TIL hip-hop legend and pioneer, Nas, wrote the lyrics for Will Smith’s “Gettin Jiggy Wit It”

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Me0GK TIL that in 1212 some twelve year old named Stephen de Cloyes thought it would be a fucking brilliant idea to retake the Holy Land with an army of children. They trusted complete strangers to sail them to Jerusalem. They all either got sold as slaves or ended up at the bottom of the Mediterranean.
lY87 TIL most mass shootings in the U.S. occur in ‘Gun Free Zones’
xPXg TIL Joseph Stalin tried to have John Wayne assassinated.
r9Vd TIL that in 2003, Abercrombie and Fitch was sued for workplace discrimination after firing Asian, Black, and other minority employees because they “did not fit the A&F image.”
X0X6R TIL that the idea that '30-50% of the population don't have internal narratives/monologues' came from a study of 5 people and has never been clinically reproduced