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TIL Nelson Mandela attended Tupac Shakurs ash scattering service in 2006.

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4kojR TIL about British World War II general Bernard Montgomery first courted a woman in 1925, when he was in his late thirties. His approach to romance included "drawing diagrams in the sand of how he would use his tanks and infantry in a future war. This young woman refused his marriage proposal.
xolD TIL that under UK law, a woman cannot commit rape.
69nVw TIL of "Helicopter String Quartet" by Karlheinz Stockhausen that uses 4 helicopters as instruments.
GAvXj TIL that Boeing's spacecraft are as good as their planes
W7Xr8 TIL the pigment/paint Prussian Blue is used in medicine to treat radiation poisoning from Thallium and Caesium.