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TIL: Will Smith was actually born and raised in West Philadelphia.

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MeOob TIL FDA has banned the use of microplastic in rinse-off cosmetics.
G9b7 TIL There is a private museum in Michigan, generally open only to paying Product Designers, which showcases thousands of failed products.
BXBD TIL Wil.I.Am created the Samurai Jack theme song
b9yGE TIL less than five per cent of the victims of transatlantic slavery were landed on the coast of the present-day United States. Most enslaved Africans were carried to the Caribbean (45 per cent) or to Brazil (45 per cent).
ZpAep TIL that Rockstar Games felt that the Skatt Brothers song "Walk the Night" was so essential to GTA IV's soundtrack that they hired a private investigator to fly to Orem, Utah and track down the lead singer Sean Delaney's surviving relatives (he died in 2003) to secure the rights of the song.