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TIL the first white male rapper on MTV was 62 y/o Comedian Rodney Dangerfield and his song Rappin Rodney.

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Brrgx TIL that a janitor from Chicago wrote over six years a 15,145-page fantasy manuscript with over 300 watercolor illustrations called “In the Realms of the Unreal”, which was only discovered after his death.
VMWd4 TIL The Toba Catastrophe Theory contends that the eruption of the Toba supervolcano 75,000 years ago nearly made humans go extinct, reducing global population to somewhere between 2,000 and 20,000 people.
p86WQ TIL that during the Great Depression, farmers who'd had their farms foreclosed on would show up to the bank's auction and buy their farms back for pennies with low bids. Anyone else that tried to outbid would be threatened by the rest of the community. These came to be known as penny auctions,
M7XX8 TIL During the American Revolutionary War the French had to defend their trading posts from the British since French allied themselves with the American colonists revolting against the British Empire, forcing Indians to fight amongst each other in India in a civil war over the trading posts.
nRWr TIL in the TV series The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the governor of California was targeted for termination. At the time of filming, the governor in office was Arnold Schwarzenegger