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TIL that Cuba has a state-run hip-hop label: La Fabri-k

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xVRZk TIL about Elijah McCoy (1843-1929), an African American inventor who invented an oil-dripping cup for trains. Other inventors tried to copy McCoy's oil-dripping cup, but none of the other cups worked as well as his, so customers started asking for "The Real McCoy."
WkvBo TIL: There are 11 black billionaires, and the first black person to become a billionare was BET founder Bob Johnson in 2001. The richest black billionaire is Nigerian Aliko Dangote, CEO of Dongote group, an industrial conglomerate. His networth of 8.1 billion makes him the 88th richest person.
MeXVm TIL that the Mouse Utopia Experiments In the 1960s had a huge influence on the animated film The Secret of Nimh. NIMH stands for the National Institute of Mental Health, by the way.
wodKW TIL amniotic fluid of a mature fetus is predominantly fetal urine that is continually swallowed and reabsorbed through fetal tissue and GI tract into the bloodstream and then urinated out... over and over again
woZ7M TIL that Luxembourg, a country right in the middle of western Europe, has a smaller population than the state of Vermont, the 49th US state in population.