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TIL Chris Tucker has a net worth of negative 11 million dollars and faces potential jail time.

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l7DY1 TIL that in 1835, the New York Sun published a series of articles falsely claiming the discovery of life and even civilization on the Moon, leading many readers to believe in lunar inhabitants.
ep4Eb TIL Rotationplasty is a surgical procedure where, in case of bone tumor, they remove a child's lower leg, rotate it 180 degree and attach it to a thigh bone in a way that makes an ankle joint serve as a "new knee". It looks like having one leg shorter and rotated back.
AZox TIL if you buy a Bugatti Veyron for yourself in India you also have to purchase one for the government. (Total cost of $3.65 million)
rN4Xo TIL that some urban birds like finches and sparrows use cigarette butts as a form of pest control for their nests. The nicotine in the cigarettes helps keep parasites away.
VBQDm TIL on 9/11, the famous ice skating rink at Chelsea Piers in NYC was turned into a makeshift morgue