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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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dDDZQ TIL about the Nizari Ismaili state, better known as the hashashin. A religious state founded by Hassan-I sabbah who waged a war against the Seljuk empire using assassination and guerilla warfare before the state was destroyed by the mongols.
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kM4m TIL bowling lanes have a very thin patterned coat of oil that is crucial to consistently landing a strike.