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TIL Kanye West once got arrested for breaking a paparazzi camera, and used his one phone call to order Chinese takeout.

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X0Zb8 TIL: Spent nuclear fuel has hope of being recycled in the United States again
wLDoY TIL Gambler's fallacy, the erroneous belief that if a particular event occurs more frequently than normal during the past it is less likely to happen in the future. In 1913, in a game of roulette, the ball fell in black 26 times in a row, the probability of the sequence is 1 in 66.6 million.
JYW7j TIL that in 2012, the Health Chief of British Columbia (Canada) proposed legalizing MDMA and selling like alcohol.
rRw8W TIL that in the 1980s Janet Jackson was criticized for not writing her own music and being dependent on producers. In response, she wrote and co-produced every song on her following album, which ended up being her best-selling album ever.
8ZPZ TIL of the XF-84H “Thunderscreech”, an experimental propeller aircraft whose rotors moved at supersonic speeds and created continuous sonic booms visible from hundreds of yards away which were powerful enough to cause severe nausea, headaches, and even knock people to the ground.