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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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kZld TIL in 2009 a woman caused a riot at a Columbus, Ohio, Burlington Coat Factory after it became clear to customers, whom she had offered store-wide to purchase all orders up to $500 from her lottery winnings, that she had no money.
OYG4 TIL that a chemistry professor at Dartmouth University died after a few drops of dimethylmercury touched her gloved hand.
OGGya TIL about Oliver the Chimp, who was billed as a human/chimp hybrid due to his flat face, walking upright, and his "preference for human women".
LQNdP TIL that in 1996, a single wasp caused a commercial passenger plane to crash, resulting in the death of over 180 people
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