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

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XRyD TIL In 1956 Spanish athlete Félix Erausquin broke the Javelin world record from 83 to 112 meters by spinning it around like a Discus. The technique was later banned by the IAAF because it was seen as too dangerous.
QJEj9 TIL the producers of The Simpsons considered aborting the series if the second episode’s animation turned out as bad as the first, which was so appalling that after seeing it for the first time, they had to redo 70% of before it could go to air.
9VkM TIL:The U. S. Army secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the ocean, in at least 26 locations off both coasts - The Army can’t say exactly where all the weapons were dumped because records are sketchy, missing or were destroyed. “It’s a disaster looming — a time bomb”
grZ04 TIL that tularemia is an infectious disease that can be contracted by “inhaling particles from an infected rabbit ground up [by] a lawnmower”.
Z8NEB TIL that the gang members in GTA V are voiced by actual gang members in real life