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TIL that Snoop Dogg employs a full-time blunt roller, paying them more than $50,000 a year to ensure a constant supply of perfectly crafted cannabis cigars.

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W4jX TIL once Astronaut Ed Mitchell was asked how it’s like to stand on the moon, he said “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, Look at that, you son of a bitch.”
78QyZ TIL that only between 45 and 85% of people experience goosebumps or chills in response to emotionally moving music, etc.
mJLy TIL Video game company Midway paid boxing announcer Michael Buffer $100,000,000 to license in perpetuity his trademark phrase “Let’s Get Ready To Rumble” for the video game “Ready To Rumble”.
R5LRw TIL that the Museum of London had a whole exhibit for a chunk of sewage
5YloR TIL that Hangul, the Korean alphabet is considered to be the most logical alphabet in the world, partly because the shapes of its consonants mimic the shapes of the speaker's mouth when pronouncing each consonant