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TIL Outlaw Country Superstar Waylon Jennings earned $25,000 during contract negotiations when he quietly walked out of the room to pee because the record company thought he had walked out in frustration.

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4XkeN TIL A large number of Chinese fled into North Korea in the 1880s due to drought and famine in their home provinces. Like their North Korean peers, Chinese children received free education in Chinese schools where they learned both Chinese and Korean
LkOL0 TIL American soldiers in the Pacific theater of WW2 always used passwords containing the letter 'L' due to Japanese mispronunciation, a word such as lollapalooza would be used and upon hearing the first two syllables come back as 'rorra' would "open fire without waiting to hear the rest".
Bo7D TIL Carrots (which used to be of purple or white stock) were originally bred to be orange to show support for the Dutch Orange-Nassau dynasty. The seafaring dutch then spread their breed of carrot the world over.
9Onp TIL the U.S. government accepts donations to reduce the national debt.
pOme TIL in 1986 The U.S. was condemned by the World Court for using Violence and Terrorism against civilians in Nicaragua.