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TIL Lil’ Wayne’s original stage name was Shrimp Daddy.

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Nj88 TIL Canada has the highest levels of greenhouse gas emissions per capita in the world. Higher than the United States and China.
nWVYr TIL The first and last nationwide census of Afghanistan was conducted in 1979. Birth records have almost never been kept. The figures used for population and ethnic makeup are largely based on repetition and politics.
j6RLE TIL in 2020 global human-made mass exceeded all living biomass
lo7ar TIL that recently-ousted Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe won a lottery of 100,000 Zimbabwe dollars (about $2,600) in 2000. The lottery was organised by a partly state-owned bank and was open to all clients who had kept Z$5,000 or more in their accounts during December 1999.
ep4OE TIL about pink-slime journalism, when untrustworthy American news networks disguise themselves as local news outlets. Over 1,000 pink-slime news outlets exist, pretending to be locally-run but producing low-quality news from afar that's meant to benefit a political party.