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TIL that actor Mark Wahlberg began his career as a rapper under the name Marky Mark.

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y6da TIL of the existence of Truckers Against Trafficking a group of volunteer truckers who work together and train others to spot human traffickers…
bdlE TIL that Secretariat was such a dominant race horse partly because his heart was roughly two and a half times the size of an average horse. His ample girth, long back and well made neck contributed to his heart-lung efficiency.
5VQ5B TIL that bulimia is socially contagious. Fiji had never had a report of anyone with an eating disorder, but within three years after television was introduced in 1995, a study found 11% of Fiji’s adolescent girls had purged their food at least once. By 2007, it was 45%.
wAVP TIL that Washington DC contributes more in federal taxes than 19 states, yet citizens only have one nonvoting representative in the House, none in Senate, and had no electoral votes until 1961. Some say it is “Taxation without Representation” and the UN has cited the US on the issue since 2006.
7rDjp TIL that there is exactly one place in the British Isles to have a name with an exclamation point in its name.