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TIL that Karl Marx's Great Great Grand-son is a sponsored professional freerunner.

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OoXWg TIL in the year 2000, a Hawaiian dj unsuccessfully procured a promo album from MCA Records, so he he ended up downloading it off of Napster. He heard "It Wasn't Me" by Shaggy on that album, loved it, played it a lot on the radio, and it blew up in Hawaii before anywhere else.
kxL7 TIL that you’re over 6 times more likely to be mortally wounded as a professional fisherman than as a law enforcement officer.
YGAP TIL the word “avocado” comes from the ancient Aztec word for “testicle,” and the word “guacamole” literally translates to “testicle sauce.”
AD4rB TIL that the first life insurance policy was written in 1583 in London and was for a term of one year. The insured died on day 364. The company underwriting the policy then tried to weasel out of paying by claiming they meant a lunar year (12 months of 28 days each). They lost and had to pay out.
78ZjL TIL that Queen Joanna of Naples and Sicily headed directly into Avignon as it was being ravaged by the Black Plague, in an effort to meet the Pope and clear her name in the suspicous death of her husband