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TIL Destiny’s Child and Solange recorded the theme song to the popular Disney Channel show The Proud Family.

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WkNGY TIL Richard Harris was so drunk through the 1970s that he forgot he owned a Rolls Royce. It sat in a New York garage for 25 years before he found an old photo of himself with it and his accountant confirmed it was still there running up $90k in garage storage costs.
7r1Xx TIL that during WWII, Turkey had agreed to export an extremely large amount of chromite to Nazi Germany (partially contingent on what Germany would ship to them). To stop the shipments, the Allies 'pre-clusively' purchased much of the ore, even when they did not need any more of it.
J5rj TIL a man was arrested in Ireland after punching a hole into a $10m Monet painting. His justification: he wanted to ‘get back at the state’
0mO1 TIL A Man Wrote his Own Credit Card Contract Then Sued the Bank for Breaking the Contract’s Terms
dPYE TIL there’s a kind of fish where some males build nests and help raise their young, and other “sneaker” males just swim by and ejaculate into those nests while the males that built them are trying to mate.