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TIL That Wagon trails from the Oregon Trail are still visible today

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X0LJ8 TIL that singer Dionne Warwick, upset with misogyny in rap lyrics, once set up a meeting with Snoop Dogg and Suge Knight at her home, where she demanded that they call her a “bitch” to her face. Snoop Dogg later said “I believe we got out-gangstered that day.”
0wnl1 TIL of Mira, the dying star that has been shooting across solar systems. It has burned for roughly 300,000 years leaving behind materials to help start and create new stars.
4E1N TIL that inserting swear words into other words (e.g. “abso-fucking-lutely”) is referred to as expletive infixiation.
MeeGW TIL that in 1958, a man decided to name his son "Winner". Three years later, he had another son who he named "Loser". "Winner" became a hardened criminal and "Loser" became a detective.
lQ7r TIL In 1903, a barge tipped somewhere off the coast of Staten Island, sending most of its 7,700 silver-and-lead bars to the bottom. Most bars were recovered right away, but some 1,400 bars, valued at up to $20 million today were never found.