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

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Wka4o TIL In parts of Virginia it's illegal to trick or treat if you are over the age of 13 and is punishable as a misdemeanor unless you are just walking your kid or sibling(s).
Xj1Q TIL that Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of wartime Japan, was fitted with a new set of dentures by US medical staff after his failed suicide attempt in 1945. The phrase “Remember Pearl Harbor” had been secretly drilled into them in Morse code.
BVEW TIL that before becoming “The Science Guy”, Bill Nye was a stand-up comedian
BrdZW TIL that the US has technically been a metric nation since 1975 but just hasn't enforced the system onto private companies and people.
9EEB TIL that having children in your early 20s was a US cultural norm only for baby boomers, and that earlier in the 20th-century eugenicists had warned against it