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epEPE TIL: It’s common for bike riders in elite competitions to pee on each other mid-race
Dbxg TIL that the actor who killed Ricky in Boys in the Hood ended up being convicted of a double murder in real life and getting murdered himself in prison by his satanic cellmate.
8aL9V TIL one man is responsible for removing all the old paper prayers from Jerusalem’s Western Wall, his name is Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz. Twice a year he and his team collects hundreds of thousands of notes and buries them on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olive
LKpr TIL that the original Village People line up was recruited using an ad which read: “Macho Types Wanted: Must Dance And Have A Moustache.”
WkW4Y TIL about "foldering", a covert communications technique using emails saved as drafts in an account accessed by multiple people, and poses an extra challenge to detect because the messages are never sent. It has been used by Al Qaeda and drug cartels, amongst others.