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

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KYD0G TIL laboratories practiced mouth pipetting when accessioning specimens “until the 1970s, when cheap mechanical pipettes became available.”
78kML TIL Mae Louise Miller, was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1961
JYNMj TIL Beer cans used to be 40% thicker and way stronger, which is why we see people crushing beer cans as a display of strength in older movies
MwK8 TIL Ethel Merman’s last film appearance was “Airplane!,” where she played a man who thought he was Ethel Merman.
6lLw TIL CIA created a gun that could shoot darts that caused heart attack. Upon penetration of skin the dart left just a tiny red dot. The poison itself worked rapidly and denatured quickly afterwards. It was revealed in 1975 in a Congressional testimony.