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TIL that California has a higher population than Canada

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9ZN7 TIL that after his presidency and shortly before his death, a depressed LBJ repeatedly listened to Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water as he worried about the public’s perception of his legacy
6ExQw TIL Hans Zimmer, composer extraordinaire behind Interstellar among others, played synthesizers with The Buggles ("Video Killed the Radio Star").
nMAG TIL Fidel Castro and his entourage stayed at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem, a centre of the Black community, during his 1960 New York City visit. There he felt African Americans would be more sympathetic to his cause. His stay in Harlem prompted many other leaders to visit the neighborhood
WmpX TIL taking a daily multivitamin is a highly contentious topic with studies proving it a useless, potentially harmful, waste of time/money and other studies proving it a beneficial way to insert minerals which would otherwise be non-existent in the average diet.
dK4r TIL that use of handguns in crime rose by 40% in the two years after they were banned in the UK