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TIL: Ballistics tests confirmed a gun registered to Tupac Shakur shot the bullet which killed a 6 year old boy in 1992 during a fight between his crew and an unruly crowd

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1kP4 TIL Queen Victoria was the longest reigning monarch ever.
aKKA TIL in 2004 a customer in Las Vegas walked into an In-N-Out and ordered a 100x100. That’s 100 beef patties and 100 slices of cheese, which the restaurant obliged as until then they accommodated orders of any size at extra cost. Since then In-N-Out changed it’s rules and capped the burger at 4x4.
4GLJ TIL of Guenter Verheugen, the guy who got mobile phone manufacturers to adopt MicroUSB as the universal standard for charging/connectivity.
wo50E TIL that Charles Dickens was a great lover of cats, so much so that when one of his beloved cats, Bob, passed away, Dickens was so upset that his sister-in-law fashioned one of Bob's paws into a letter opener. Dickens kept this at his side as he wrote and he used it every morning to open his mail.
4XDLw TIL that when Redd Foxx died of a heart attack, while filming a scene for "The Royal Family", his co-stars thought that he was joking, as it was similar to a recurring bit he had on the television series "Sanford and Son"