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TIL that musical artist Prince's birth name was actually Prince

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WkRLL TIL in 78' & 82' studies were conducting concluding women asking for sex got a yes 75% of the time, men got a yes 0% of the time.
1QbX TIL: Thousands of lions are being bred on farms to be shot by wealthy foreign trophy-hunters.
YpMGv TIL of Saitō Musashibō Benkei, a Japanese warrior who is said to have killed in excess of 300 trained soldiers by himself while defending a bridge. He was so fierce in close quarters that his enemies were forced to kill him with a volley of arrows. He died standing upright.