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TIL Kanye West had an autobiographical project and wanted Danny McBride to play him in it

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nvb9 TIL That there is a suspended monorail in Germany that was build in 1897 and still moves 25 million passengers annually.
QJy9k TIL Montana is the last state in the country without at will employment. An employee there can't be fired without cause (following a probationary period).
olYR TIL that during the WWI First Battle of the Marne, French reinforcements were transported to the front from Paris using a fleet of taxis, running up a fare of 70,012 francs.
VM9dG TIL since India has more than 400 million vegetarians, every packaged food or toothpaste in India must have a mark to distinguish whether it is vegetarian or non-vegetarian. The vegetarian symbol is a green square with a green dot in the centre while the non vegetarian is the same in red.
E1brX TIL that photographer Eddie Adams regretted that Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan was perceived negatively after his Pulitzer-winning photograph of Loan executing a war criminal and described Loan as "a goddamned hero."