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TIL That Queen Latifah was the first rapper to perform at the Superbowl

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x6Npo TIL that Jack Butler Yeats, brother of poet W. B. Yeats, won a silver medal for Swimming in the 1924 Olympics - not for the sport, but for a painting titled "Swimming".
ANlE4 TIL that over 98% of Ohio's puppy mills are run by the Amish, as are 97% of Indiana's, and 63% of Pennsylvania's.
ERgP TIL There’s an organization called “419 Eaters” that is dedicated to wasting the scammers’ time by pretending to fall for their scams.
E11Vp If you leave your body to science, you may also be donating to commerce: Cadavers and body parts are sold in a thriving, unregulated market where abuses abound.
epagJ TIL that one of the SCAs (Shuttle Carrier Aircraft) - the Boeing 747s that used to transport the Space Shuttle on its back - had a humorous note at one of the mounting points: "Attach Orbiter here. NOTE: black side down"