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TIL "corn smut" is a food, and apparently tasty if you're a mushroom person.

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aVby TIL: according to former LAPD veteran detective Greg Kading, P. Diddy is responsible for 2Pac Shakur’s death.
vP1K4 TIL about the “Retail Apocalypse” - the closing of numerous large-chain retail stores worldwide, starting around 2010 and continuing onward.
mYop TIL an “easy to learn, politically neutral” language called Esperanto was created in hopes that it’d bring nations together. There are about 20,000 fluent speakers ranging from Europe to Asia.
1a98P TIL Christopher Columbus hanged, burned, or cut the hands off of hundreds of thousands of Caribbean natives for their failure to bring him a bell full of gold on an island with little to no gold. Thousands committed suicide to avoid his punishments.
9YZQG TIL that Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is the highest grossing documentary of all time. It made 119.1 million dollars at the box office.