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TIL That 29% of L.A.’s air pollution comes from east asia

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b6gYZ TIL Chinese jade burial suits could take up to ten years to make and were ordered well in advance of death. Liu Sheng was known as a man who enjoyed good living and by the time he died in 113 BC his stomach had grown so large that another hundred plaques were added.
jnoM TIL that the movie Trojan Wars with a budget of $15,000,000 has earned only $309 in box office
Xm8j TIL Michael Jackson has “hundreds” of unreleased songs that were discovered in his vault after he died
yVBKV TIL that Neapolitan ice cream was created by the head chef for Prussian Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau. Pückler owned an Ethiopian girl whom he purchased at a slave market in Cairo when she was just 11 years old, remaining his sex slave until her death at 16 from tuberculosis
oRVVW TIL that no football club won the French League during the 1992/93 season. After 1st place Marseille lost its title due to a bribery scandal, it was allotted to 2nd place PSG, but the owners of the club, TV chain Canal+, feared the reactions of their subscribers in Marseille and refused it