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TIL The Rock knew about Bin Laden’s death before most people.

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yQLOl TIL Keith Moon once tried to put a hotel waterbed mattress in an elevator as a prank but it burst. He complained to the manager and convinced them it leaked and ruined his stage clothes. The hotel apologized and moved them to the antiques-filled Presidential Suite, which they demolished that night.
kO9w5 TIL: Alice Seeley Harris, a missionary who documented the horrendous abuse and mutilation under Leopold II, King of Belgium.
jN9LM TIL Indian actress Kangana Ranaut initially aspired to become a doctor at the insistence of her parents. Her relatives were unhappy with her decision to enter the film-making industry, and they did not correspond with her for several years
8eggb TIL Cathode-ray tubes, the technology behind old TVs and monitors, were in fact particle accelerators that beamed electrons into screens to generate light and then images
v1yVD TIL the words 'cream' and 'Christ' are cognates; they derive from the same root meaning 'anoint' (rubbing things together with oil both practically and religiously).