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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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Ajko TIL For the Apollo 11 moon landing conspiracy theory to be true, over 400,000 people would need to be part of the secret.
GRAN TIL That in the Cold War the British developed a Nuclear land-mine that, in order to operate, required several live chickens.
xV0GB TIL that the Catholic Church runs 26% of the world’s hospitals
MDwa TIL that during the Spanish-American war, a warship sent to capture Guam fired 13 shots at the harbour fort; the Spanish sent an officer out to aplogise for not returning the ‘salute’ as they were out of gunpowder; they hadn’t been informed they were at war.
BxeD TIL that there is a Swedish religion called Kopimism whose sole tenet is that all knowledge should be available to everyone—and thus, using CTRL+C and CTRL+V are sacred acts.