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TIL that Hey Arnold originally started out as a series claymation shorts on Sesame Street

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NXV6P TIL a sultan of Morocco, Isma‘il ibn Sharif, owned a private army called "The Black Guard" comprised of West African and Haratin slave-soldiers. Considered more loyal than the locals because of their lack of tribal affiliation, Isma‘il's black soldiers formed the bulk of his army, numbering at 150k.
8ax7V TIL that the inventor of Coca-Cola, John Stith Pemberton was a Civil War veteran who became addicted to morphine due to pain from a saber wound to the chest. Seeking alternatives to his morphine use, he developed the original formula for Coca-Cola with use of the coca plant for pain relief.
aMYy TIL that when doctors go on strike, the death rate stays level or drops.
xma7 TIL Uber is illegal in Finland. Cops regularly “catch” drivers, and fine them €300. Drivers routinely ask passengers to sit up front and act like they’re friends.
GY61G TIL that people live inside the Grand Canyon. Supai Village, the capital of the Havasupai Indian Reservation, boasts a population of a couple of hundred residents, is considered the most remote community in the continental US, and is the only place where mail is delivered and carried out by mule.