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TIL the name of Childish Gambino’s second album "Because The Internet" was suggested by Beck

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B4jb TIL Russians don’t smile as often because for them a smile is the sign of personal sympathy, but not politeness
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wygJ TIL Walt Disney was a high school drop out and he was fired by a newspaper editor because, “he lacked imagination and had no ideas”.
nWr0r TIL Norman Rockwell suffered from multiple personalities, including Rocky, who was abducted by aliens. Rockwell suffered from multiple psychotic breaks and created dark, sometimes blasphemous art that was never shown.