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TIL that a scene in the movie "American Me" was so offensive to the Mexican Mafia that they later murdered 3 of the film's consultants.

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R5wM4 TIL: Magnus Scheving (actor of Sportacus in Lazy Town) became national champion in aerobics based on a bet in his twenties. Scheving chose snooker for Fjölnir, and Fjölnir chose aerobics. Eventually, Scheving became a national champion in aerobics, and Fjölnir became a national champion in snooker"
yVe7v TIL that after scientists sequenced the genome of a tiger they found that it shares 95.6% of its DNA with the domestic cat, from which it diverged 10.8 million years ago.
v1RK TIL a jefferson county teacher was suspended after he replied to a student calling him a Nigga" “Nigga This, Nigga that, Nigga please, can you hand a nigga a pencil”
j6xaN TIL of a new (2019) genus of frogs called Mini, which contains three species - Mini mum, Mini ature, and Mini scule
9EQG TIL a group of rabbits is called a ‘fluffle’