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TIL Biggie sampled trumpeteer Herb Alpert in "Hypnotize"... go to 3:20 mark in the song

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yQXmM TIL that none of Haiti's first nine Presidents served their full terms and retired voluntarily; all either died of disease, natural causes, were overthrown, declared themselves emperor, or were (most commonly) sent into exile.
l79RB TIL the US army had a robot with a teddy bear face designed by VECNA.
0GMN TIL that Frank Zappa’s Grammy-winning album “Jazz From Hell” received a parental advisory sticker even though it is a collection of instrumental pieces and contains no lyrics at all
ZmNB TIL a 57yo Japanese man has been learning to SCUBA dive specifically so he can look for his wife’s remains after she was presumably swept away during the 2011 tsunami. He says her last email to him was “… I want to go home”, and he is determined to make that happen.
rNlg1 TIL that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest English word published in Oxford Dictionaries, which defines it as "an artificial long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust".