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TIL Death Row Records released a Christmas Album in 1996 called “Christmas on Death Row” including songs from Snoop Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound and Nate Dogg.

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Qkk6 TIL that Winston Churchill owned a platypus named ‘Bulldog’ whom he considered his 'personal mascot in conflict’. Bulldog died on the final day of the Battle of Britain.
W7Qjo TIL That pigeons can distinguish between the works of Picasso and Monet
vPapR TIL that gas powered impact wrenches exist, used on the railroad for the assembly/disassembly of rail lines.
p8WMG TIL Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was brought down because he created forged documents using a Microsoft font which didn’t exist when they were supposed to have been written.
Y7JbZ TIL that when Pope John Paul II visited Phoenix, he held mass at Sun Devil Stadium, which had all images and textual mentions of the Sun Devil mascot and nickname removed or covered for the occasion.