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TIL Ice-T released a song called “99 Problems” eleven years before Jay-Z did, with the same chorus.

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apNo TIL that the only infixes in the English language are obscenities like fuckin’, as in “Un-fuckin’-believable”
KO7m9 TIL about the Goiânia accident, one of the worst nuclear disasters. Fascinated locals began playing with glowing dust after opening a stolen radioactive capsule: lighting it on fire, applying it to their bodies, & consuming it. Up to 112,000 may have been exposed, & some died.
b9YMN TIL that the official bird of Madison, Wisconsin is the plastic flamingo.
QJ6EL TIL that Alex Karras, who played Mongo in Blazing Saddles, was also the dad in the 80s sitcom Webster and a member of the NFL Hall of Fame.
69yxX TIL Jessica Cantillan, a 17 yr old Mexican citizen received the wrong heart and lung in a transplant surgery at Duke University in 2003. The transplant surgeon (world renowned)wasn't notified untIl the end of surgery. Her body rejected the organs and despite a second surgery, she died.