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TIL that Nas listed his daughter Destiny as an executive producer on Stillmatic, so that she would always receive royalty checks from the album.

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0wGgv TIL that Greg Graffin, lead singer of Bad Religion, has a PhD in the history of science AND has lectured courses in natural sciences at both the University of California, Los Angeles and at Cornell University.
78pBP TIL 25 supercars that were seized from the son of Equatorial Guinea's dictator were sold for a combined $27M at auction in Switzerland in 2019
W7yy8 TIL Companies save more than $3 billion a year in unspent gift cards.
Bgd7x TIL a Yale study found that gunshot wounds to the head or other penetrating brain injuries have a 42% chance of survival
xpbw TIL when the allies bombed Hamburg in July 1943, the unusually warm and dry weather conditions created “a vortex and whirling updraft of super-heated air which created a 1,500-foot-high tornado of fire, a totally unexpected effect.”