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TIL In Weird Al's White & Nerdy music video Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key are the two "gangsters" who are scared away by Yankovic's nerdiness in the beginning of the video.

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ZpMkQ TIL of Percy Ross, best known for his column, 'Thanks a Million' which ran in over 800 publications. He gave away his fortune, an estimated $20 to $30 million over a period of 17 years. Newspapers called him, “America’s Rich Uncle.” He died in 2001 at age 84, relatively unknown, just as he wished.
8R1L TIL if the mostly unknown 10th President of the USA-John Tyler, hadn’t implemented the Monroe Doctrine, Hawaii would be a British colony today
VMyep TIL the song 'Rapture' by Blondie (1981) was the first single featuring a rap to reach number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. Debbie Harry, lead singer of Blondie, has said many rappers, including the Wu-Tang Clan and Mobb Deep, told her it was the first rap song they ever heard.
wLkb6 TIL that lobsters have bladders on either side of their heads, so they communicate by urinating at each other. If they want another lobster to know that they’re happy or sad or angry or interested in a relationship, they say it with pee!
9mp6 TIL that Rasputin’s causes of death are mostly myths: He didn’t drown and wasn’t poisoned, either.