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TIL African-Americans were largely responsible for creating the form of singing known as "barbershop quartet"

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KOgBQ TIL That as McDonald's came to the former Communist nations of Eastern Europe, it became a point of national pride to have one, even being included in football chants to taunt those countries who didn't yet have a McDonalds.
VM5v0 TIL "Hands up don't shoot" never actually happened in the Mike Brown case. The DOJ investigation found that Brown was shot while charging at the cop, after beating him & reaching for his gun
yVyLa TIL about: Telmatobius culeus; an endangered water frog. In reference to its excessive amounts of skin, it has jokingly been referred to as the Titicaca scrotum water frog.
jZYM TIL that there is a malicious zip file on the internet that is only 42 kilobytes when compressed, but 4.5 petabytes when unzipped (that’s 4500 terabytes or 4,500,000 gigabytes!)
8aOQ8 TIL that Ireland, New Zealand, Iceland, Greenland, and Antarctica are the only places on Earth that do not have any native snakes.