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TIL Prince used a picture of Dave Chappelle dressed as Prince for a 2013 album cover

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7erp TIL that when asked about his religious beliefs in an interview with TIME, Vladimir Putin remarked, “…There are things I believe, which should not in my position, at least, be shared with the public for everybody’s consumption because that would look like self-advertising or a political striptease.”
OoGNe TIL of Lee Lorch a mathematician blacklisted in the 50s by most US universities for his civil rights activism. Before his death in 2014 he was asked if he would have done anything any differently. "More and better of the same," he replied.
ANYgB TIL H. G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" was inspired by the colonial British genocide of Tasmanians
NQ76 TIL Nearly 37% of purchased Steam games are never played.
ADo9n TIL that Texas at one point was very very similar to other Deep Southern states, however by 1936, Texas elites took a step to redefine Texas and it’s culture with a very prominent Wild West theme to distance themselves from the Confederacy slowly but surely.