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TIL MySpace still gets 50 million visitors a month.
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TIL the American Dennis The Menace comic strip is still being produced, after being first introduced in 1951.
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TIL Gangster, Al Capone started one of the first Soup Kitchens during the Great Depression for the unemployed.
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TIL that the Hope Diamond was once owned by King Louis XIV of France. Louis purchased the diamond in 1668, and started wearing it in 1673, after which it became known as the "French Blue". It was set in gold, and suspended on a neck ribbon, which King Louis XIV wore on ceremonial occasions.
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TIL that Japan has spent $600 Million protecting two rocks that are apart of the coral reef Okinotorishima because it gives Japan a 200 nautical mile (370.4 km) exclusive economic zone (EEZ) around the atoll.
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TIL that Darwinian theory has no explanation for why a species with mating rituals does not completely lose all male genetic variants since females are only attracted to certain specific male characteristics. This is known as the Lek paradox.