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TIL that Mr. Rogers sued Ice Cube in 1990 over "A Gangsta's Fairytale" because it sampled the Mister Rogers' Neighborhood theme song.

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4jAo TIL of Endicott Peabody, the Episcopalian minister who served Tombstone, Arizona and was a spiritual advisor to Wyatt Earp, also taught all four of Theodore Roosevelt’s children, and presided over the wedding of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
wom8o TIL Earth travels 18.5 miles per second around the sun
mxVdR TIL of the "Silent Protest" where up to 15,000 black folks protested lynchings across the country by marching in silence in New York
jN9kM TIL that the .io domain belongs to the British Indian Ocean Territories that the British took over after a shady Cold War deal. They make millions of profits on the domain without sharing any of it with the Chagossian people, the inhabitants of the territories.
yVXYl TIL Hemingway was three months sober when he killed himself in 1961