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TIL Kenya’s national motto is “Harambe”

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GJ91 TIL German poet Heinrich Heine left his entire fortune to his wife, but with one catch: she had to remarry “because then there will be at least one man to regret my death.”
w8eY TIL Marilyn Monroes was Playboy’s first Sweetheart (later Playmate) of the Month. Marilyn had been paid $50 to model for the picture in 1949; Hugh Hefner bought it for $500 and launched an empire.
P1mwe TIL that there was actually a jelly bean shortage in 2023. Apparently pectin and starch were in short supply a couple years ago.
oBMJr TIL that the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was one of the first cases in the US to prevent a specific ethnic group from entering the country