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TIL that Fetty Wap lost his left eye before his first birthday, the result of congenital glaucoma.

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EgmXV TIL Stephen Merchant was hired for the Ricky Gervais radio show that ran between late 90s to early 2000s primarily because his CV happened to be the at the top of the pile.
0daJ1 TIL That the US has a national Seed Bank.
wLBLP TIL Carole King has written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. She also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK, making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1962 and 2005
XEx18 TIL that the Oxford Junior Dictionary removed around 50 words that have to do with the natural world, in order to replace them with more "modern" words for today's tech-savvy children. Some of the removed words include acorn, dandelion, heron, newt, and otter.
Ypa5G TIL Chance The Rapper started a new awards show for teachers