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TIL that Nas listed his daughter as an executive producer on his album Stillmatic so that she could always receive royalty checks from the album’s sales.

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9JOM TIL the opening scene from The Exorcist was shot in the ancient ruins of Hatra in Iraq. These were the same ruins the terrorist group ISIL destroyed in february 2015
b9OvE TIL: Creed from The Office was actually playing solitaire the entire time in the background.
Y78VA TIL that the first historical mosque in the world (built by Muhammad himself) was torn down and replaced by the Saudi government in 1984.
oVMK TIL that after hitting his head in the shallow end of a swimming pool, a man awoke with the condition known as aquired musical savant syndrome. He had become a great pianist without ever learning to play.
dD4DK TIL that Spiro Mounds, a Native American "King Tut's Tomb", were ransacked, desecrated, and destroyed by a group of local treasure hunters in 1935, and is considered the worst looting of an archaeological site in US history.