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TIL Straight Outta Compton was never played in Compton because the city has no movie theaters.

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9ykB TIL that Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone which was released 1997, is the only book to have sold more than 100 million copies since The Lord of The Rings which was released 1954-1955
Y7yd TIL: In 1770, British Parliament passed a law that made wearing makeup a crime akin to witchcraft. The reasoning behind the law was that men were enchanted by a false face, and they were due an annulment once they realized what their wives really looked like.
VMw74 TIL bees can be blue. Xylocopa caerulea, the blue carpenter bee, is non-aggressive and semi-solitary. They do not build hives like honeybees but instead prefer to live inside dead wood. They live in Southeast Asia, India and Southern China.
1XD8 TIL that a woman in a wheelchair went on the show The Price is Right, and won a treadmill
GAvrN TIL Amber Rene Hagerman’s murder remains unsolved, the AMBER alert system in the US is named in her honor