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TIL In 2015, Dwayne Johnson became an ordained minister in order to surprise a superfan by officiating at his wedding.

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vPQR7 TIL if you shuffle a pack of cards, it's likely that you have come up with an ordering of cards that is unique in human history. In fact in a 52 pack of card, there are 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 possibilities.
dDapQ TIL the "Bloody Mary" mirror ritual is related to the "strange-face illusion"
D7og TIL Canada’s decriminalization of marijuana bill in 2002 was scrapped because the DEA threatened to slow trade on the US-Canada border
Zpova TIL Arthur Conan Doyle's (creator of Sherlock Holmes) detective work is responsible for England's first Appellate Court.
grxrA TIL about the Halifax Explosion, which occurred in December 1917 when 2 explosive-laden ships collided in the harbor of Halifax, Nova Scotia. 1,782 people were killed and 9,000 injured. At the time, it was the largest man-made explosion in history.