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TIL that Branford Marsalis played saxophone on Public Enemy's Fight the Power

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ZpygD TIL South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone were asked to write the prequel to Dumb and Dumber. In an interview with Playboy in 2000, they explained they worked on it for two years, but they were too busy with South Park to finish it
GY4j4 TIL that the food pyramid came from Sweden
9YM8p TIL Alabama has a higher human development index than Italy - if Alabama were a country it would rank as 28th most developed in the world, contrary to its reputation as an undeveloped region of the United States.
grx4b TIL that the architect that designed the original WTC towers actually built another similar tower in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is essentially a half-height replica of one WTC tower.
b64aZ TIL of the Canadian Shield.The Shield makes up roughly 50 per cent of Canada’s land mass, was formed over 3 billion years through processes such as plate tectonics, erosion and glaciation, and contains some of the oldest known rocks on Earth.