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TIL “99 Problems” was originally an Ice-T song from his album Home Invasion, released in 1993.

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JYNrm TIL: A typical kitchen sponge has about the same bacterial density per cm as an average human stool.
awjM0 TIL about The Duge Bridge, the highest bridge in the world. The road deck sits 565 metres (1,850 feet) above the Beipan River. This is higher than One World Trade Center in New York City, 541 meters (1,776 feet)
R7w7w TIL The Starbucks at the CIA headquarters protects the identities of its CIA patrons by never writing any names on the drinks, putting workers through intense background check processes, and not using reward cards in fear of the data of the card befalling into the wrong hands.
ep0y4 TIL sea otters were extinct in Washington State between 1910 and 1965. The current population originally came from Alaska and they were evacuated from areas where the US was testing nuclear bombs between 1965 and 1972
d8yWB TIL that in 1896, Irish-American inventor Patrick Cunningham sabotaged a town rally for presidential candidate William McKinley by firing his rocket-powered "flying devil" torpedo down the main street.