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TIL on New Years Eve of 1999, Brad Pitt played a prank where he bribed the Mexican Government to cut the power and phone lines of a resort and send in troops to arrest one of his friends on drug charges.

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nWa1r TIL Chad Kroeger wrote the 2003 hit "Why Don't You & I," for Santana and sang vocals on the album version, but his record label didn't want his voice on the single because they thought it could overshadow their upcoming Nickelback album release, so he recommended Alex Band of The Calling
od8Y TIL during a meeting with the UN, North Koreans came with AK-47s under their jackets. Instead of confronting them, American officers turned up the heat in the room to make them sweat under their heavy clothes
yR4M TIL America’s obesity rate has gone from 13 percent (1965) to 36 percent (2010)
ByRe TIL Morphine is named after Morpheus, the Greek God of Sleep.
yVv4a Today I learned about the Oh-My-God particle: an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray detected on 15 October 1991. As of 2023 it is the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed and the time of its detection it was traveling at 0.9999999999999999999999951 times the speed of light.