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TIL One of Whoopi Goldberg’s first jobs was as a mortuary beautician.

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negxo TIL SIM card is not just an ordinary piece of read-only memory. It's a separate micro-computer with its own environment capable of running Java Card applets
G9Vj TIL in 2010 Tupac’s song ‘Dear Mama’ was inducted into The Library of Congress Registry with The LOCR stating it is “a moving and eloquent homage to both the murdered rapper’s own mother and all mothers struggling to maintain a family in the face of addiction, poverty and societal indifference.”
wolvE TIL between 1978 and 1980 the FBI formed a fake company and attempted to bribe members of congress. Out of 31 officials who were tested, 12 accepted the bribe and were convicted
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695D8 TIL that Emperor Wenxuan of Northern Qi had a homicidal urge (usually by dismemberment) every time he was drunk, so his prime minister set up a supply of condemned prisoners to the palace. If a prisoner could survive three months without being killed, he would be set free.