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TIL Jay-Z is banned from China due to "constant use of vulgar language in music" according to the former Chinese Culture Ministry.

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X0QX8 TIL there is a store called Uranus Chocolate Factory, located in Uranus, Missouri
D1WWV TIL: All of the world's four deepest caves are in located in Abkhazia. The record-holder is Veryovkina Cave, which goes down at least 1.3 miles. Due to the hazards and need for specialized rope techniques, "the round trip —top to bottom and back— takes professional speleologists about a week."
y01a TIL Solitaire, Minesweeper, Hearts, and Freecell were implemented in Windows systems to subconsciously teach people how to use different Windows technologies
eB9J TIL FOX News reporters were fired for telling the truth about Monsanto.
j684R TIL Leonhard Euler wrote 234 letters to 15 year old German Princess Friederike Charlotte over a period of two years in order to teach her math, physics, and sciences. These letters were later reprinted as a textbook for "every female academy in the kingdom"