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TIL Prince has a huge stash of unreleased records and fully complete videos.

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1Wm7 TIL America’s main beers (Budweiser, Coors, etc) are light and relatively flavorless due to WWII making them rely on cheaper ingredients
kEo4 TIL that there are Independent Olympic Athletes who don’t represent any specific country in Olympic competition.
N75KJ TIL televangelist Jerry Falwell said in opposition to Brown v. Board of Education: When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not attempt to cross that line.
WkBW4 TIL about the No Gun Ri massacre, which took place on the 26th July 1950, where US Forces killed a large number of South Korean Civilians. One GI, Norman Tinkler, was later quoted by the Associated Press as having said, “We just annihilated them.”
xVJ7g TIL Killer bees were created in an attempt to breed tamer and more manageable bees. This was done by crossing a European honey bee and an African bee, but instead the offspring became more aggressive and highly defensive bees that have escaped into the wild.