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TIL that the Bin Laden family are major investors in a company with ties to presidents and owns Supreme

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Omg1 TIL that about 1% of the population is born with a tiny hole above their ear, a sinus thought to be an voluntionary remnant from fish gills.
0wxLA TIL British livestock auctions still quote price in guineas even though guineas stopped being used in 1816.
OoJBa TIL producer Lee Mendelson was working on a Peanuts special when—while driving over the Golden Gate Bridge—Vince Guaraldi's Cast Your Fate To The Wind came on the radio. He was so moved, he immediately booked lunch with Guaraldi & asked him to score the music for A Charlie Brown Christmas.
mxwox TIL: A master player of the Chinese strategy game Go has decided to retire, due to the rise of artificial intelligence that "cannot be defeated".
D1gNg TIL that when told that Captain Picard drank a lot of tea, Patrick Stewart suggested the character should drink lapsang souchong (a variety favored by Winston Churchill). The producers were afraid that audience members wouldn’t know what it was, so they made him change it to Earl Grey.