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TIL that the B.I.G. portion of the name The Notorious B.I.G. stood for Business Instead of Game, and upon his death, Books Instead of Guns.

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BrPlL TIL of Albert Pierrepoint, England's lead hangman from the 1940's-1950's. He executed many Nazi's and other high profile murderers. He owned a pub and usually was able to carry out an execution and still make it back to open his bar on time. He once had to hang one of his regular pub customers.
R7eK4 TIL An American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse in 1995, Artax, was named after the fictional horse from The Neverending Story. Artax equaled or broke three track records during the 1999 racing season when he won the Breeder's Cup Sprint, Carter Handicap and Forest Hills Handicap.
loOdB TIL A man once sued a dry cleaner’s for $67M over a late return of a pair of pants. He reduced it to $45 million in court. The case was thrown out multiple times, the man lost his job as he was a judge himself, and the dry cleaners was forced to close their shop due to court costs.
PyLZ TIL the phrase ‘23 Skidoo’, meaning “let’s get out of here”, was America’s first truly national fad expression.
97wB TIL that Eminem’s song ‘Rap God’ is in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most words in a song (1,560 words in 6:04 minutes at an average of 4.28 words per second)