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TIL that the Denver police uses a Smelloscope to find pot smokers that don’t comply with the Denver “odour ordinance”

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XEOXk TIL In the late 90’s Eminem played his then unreleased song Just The Two Of Us for Will Smith who said “You’re either gonna be the biggest flop in Hip Hop, or you’re gonna be the biggest thing that we’ve ever seen in Hip Hop.”
R59wl TIL Ruth Brown, a 1950s R & B superstar had her earnings withheld by her record company. She then spent several years working low paying jobs until making a comeback in 1976. She used her newfound fame to fight for musicians to receive royalties for their music.
AygB TIL that in 2009 Billy Joel’s daughter tried to commit suicide by taking a bunch of homeopathic pills. She survived.
rRvP0 TIL in 2000, Russian submarine Kursk experienced a torpedo system failure. The explosion caused the sub to hit the ocean floor. All 118 crew members eventually perished as a result of failed rescue missions. The president kept it quiet. Later a victims wife and mother were forcibly sedated.
GYpZE TIL that the merging of two black holes in 2015 emitted 3.6 septillion yottawatts of power, greater than the combined power of all light radiated by all the stars in the observable universe