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TIL Steve Harwell, singer of Smash Mouth, was originally a rapper in a Public-Enemy-inspired rap group, but abandoned the project after he heard Dr Dre's The Chronic and realised that the genre was changing.

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GY6P7 TIL All foreign citizens visiting Tibet must be in a tour group and there are no direct international flights from foreign countries to Tibet, except for Nepal, which borders Tibet
gr8dW TIL: In WW2 school children were used to create nearly 9,000 paper mache type balloons that were later used to complete bombing raids. The children were not told the purpose of their paper mache projects.
0wa5A TIL President Lyndon B. Johnson owned a water-surfing car and used it to prank his advisors and friends.
Lw10 TIL that a U.S. F-22 Raptor was able to fly next to an Iranian F-4 Phantom with out it knowing, and told the pilot to go home.
dDw9B TIL in Japan raw eggs are generally safe to eat. This is because the country has developed a "super egg machine" that checks the inside of the eggs for salmonella using spectroscopic analysis. It also cleans the eggs without breaking their shells, dries them, and packages them so they are safe.