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TIL about Bohemian Club, an exclusive, private San Francisco-based men's club founded in 1872, with past members like George H Bush and Henry Kissinger

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KYMB9 TIL Tupac's final album All Eyez on Me was released after Suge Knight paid Tupac's $1.4 million bail to get him released from jail. In return, Tupac agreed to release three albums on Death Row Records. The double album All Eyes on Me served as the first two albums in the three-album contract.
NPnN TIL There will be a solar eclipse on November 3rd of this year, it will be visible in North and South America, South Europe, and Africa.
91kM TIL that a man in Michigan has 29 college degrees, and is currently studying to get his 30th.
P1AXw TIL that sidereal time is different from solar time, so in a typical "year" (ignoring leap year complications) where sun rises 365 times, the Earth has actually done 366 rotations around its axis
78Eep TIL in the final years of his life, Harry Houdini spent substantial time and energy targeting 'spiritualists' who claimed they could read minds or communicate with the dead. Houdini saw this as an unethical branch of his profession that manipulated people vulnerable with grief.