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TIL that actor Mark Wahlberg had a cocaine addiction at the age of 13. He was also charged with attempted murder at 16 after bashing a Vietnamese man over the head with a stick and shouting racial slurs at him.

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X0Xyr TIL The water boatman insect, which is 2mm long, sings at an amazing 99.2 decibels, which is the equivalent of standing by a hurtling freight train., making it the loudest animal for its size yet discovered. Even more impressive is that it makes this sound by rubbing its penis on its belly.
awKZb TIL that California's population (39.6 million) is larger than that of Canada (38.2 million) and Australia (25.9 million)
d8ZBQ TIL that in the 1984 U.S. Presidential Election, Walter Mondale won only one state - Minnesota, his home state. Ronald Reagan won the other 49.
Yp65v TIL in 1993, an FBI agent in a gorilla suit helped catch Mexican zoo officials who were attempting to smuggle primates from America to Mexico illegally. The five people that were caught were charged with trafficking primates in violation of federal laws protecting endangered species.
Z8lja TIL Tens of thousands of Romani were killed in the Jasenovac concentration camp, along with Serbs, Jews, and Anti-fascist Muslims and Croats. Yad Vashem estimates that the Porajmos was most intense in Yugoslavia, where around 90,000 Romani were killed.