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TIL: In 1976, the Chicago Sun-Times bought a bar so they could expose the corruption of city inspectors extracting bribes from local businesses.

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ZkdG TIL that the first rap song to top #1 on the Billboard charts was Blondie’s “Rapture”, sung by Debbie Harry, a white female. It was also the first rap music video to appear on MTV.
kOnOB TIL that Canadian country folk singer and songwriter Taylor Mitchell was killed by a pair of coyotes while hiking in Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Her death is the only known fatal coyote attack on an adult as well as the only known fatal coyote attack on a human ever confirmed in Canada
58Ak TIL that billionaire Mark Cuban wrote: “The most patriotic thing you can do: bust your ass and get rich. Make a boatload of money. Pay your taxes. Lots of taxes. Hire people. Train people. Pay people. Spend money on rent, equipment, services. Pay more taxes.”
R4vl TIL The U.S. is the world’s only industrialized nation that taxes citizens who live overseas, even if their income is generated in a foreign country and they never return to America.
epR6g TIL that Shark Week has been aired annually on the Discovery Channel every July or August since 1988