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TIL that when Coolio was asked to work on the soundtrack for “Dangerous Minds”, Stevie Wonder allowed him to use the instrumental and chorus samples from his song “Pastime Paradise” only if Coolio agreed to not include any profanity. Coolio said yes and the masterpiece “Gangstas Paradise” was born.

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pYWO TIL Amish men do not grow mustaches because, as pacifists, they did not want to be associated with warring Europeans who wore elaborate mustaches.
GYe17 TIL that contrary to popular belief, bread is very bad for ducks and birds in general! Bread provides these animals with no nutritional value, makes them prone to dietary deficiencies and can even cause the death of the animal due to the salt contained in the bread.
4voX TIL that the Doctor who said that the MMR vaccine caused Autism (Andrew Wakefield) was paid £400,000 to do so by a group of lawyers looking to sue the manufacturers.
WkjA TIL J. D. Tippit was a police officer with the Dallas Police who, according to two government investigations, was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald after Tippit stopped Oswald following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Oswald’s initial arrest was for Tippit’s murder, not Kennedy’s
WelY TIL on the set of the ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ TV show, while the crew was moving a neon-orange mannequin prop, one of the mannequin’s arms broke off revealing it was a human body. The body was identified as Elmer McCurdy, a criminal who had robbed a train and died in a shoot-out with police.