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TIL DJ Khaled used to go by the name Arab Attack but changed it after 9/11 to not appear insensitive.

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dDEVB TIL pianos have pedals
d8ybK TIL that the continent of Antarctica was discovered so recently in human history that the first undisputed landing of humans on Antarctica did not occur until 24 January, 1895.
JYebj TIL Earl Simmons (DMX) got his name from an instrument he had used at Children's Home he stayed in as a boy, the Oberheim DMX drum machine; it later was also interpreted as 'Dark Man X'.
dE0E TIL statues of Jews in obscene contact with a large sow are still on cathedrals all over Germany
GnbN TIL Carl Sagan was an avid marijuana user his entire life. “I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, unavailable to us without such drugs”