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TIL Shaquille O'Neal is also a DJ under the name 'DJ Diesel', he got into the dance music scene in 2014-2015

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loEmK TIL petit Four (small french pastries) got their name from how they are baked. Traditional brick ovens took a long time to cool down, so to not waste residual heat after baking bread, bakers made smaller cakes at this lower temperature. It was called baking à petit four - literally "at small oven."
EB7 TIL that the planet Uranus actually rotates sideways and “rolls” around the sun rather than “spinning” like the other planets.
gpy8 TIL of Operation Paul Bunyan which included 60 US troops, 64 South Korean Special Forces troops, 7 attack heli’s, an array of attack jets, nuclear ready B-52 bombers, and 12,00 troops on stand-by to finish cutting down a tree after North Korean soldiers killed 2 US soldiers cutting a tree.
e0NKE TIL Paul McCartney in 2002 threw his fiance' Heather Mills' diamond-and-sapphire engagement ring (£15,000 ($25,500) out of a hotel window during an argument. After calming down he asked security at the Turnberry Isle Resort and Club to search the grounds and it was eventually found.
BY1r TIL that in 86 AD, the Colosseum was filled with water to stage a full naval battle