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TIL Eminem bought Elton John 2 diamond cock rings for his civil partnership

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MeeZA TIL the founder of Chrysler's 14-year-old son hung a small watercolor landscape featuring an inch-high nude in his dorm room. His dorm master, believing that it was improper for a young man to display a picture of a nude woman, confiscated the picture and destroyed it. The painting was by Renoir.
bNn4 TIL: There is a program called No One Dies Alone (NODA) that pairs volunteers with terminally ill patients who have no companions or family to be with them in their final days
WkEed TIL of the B612 Foundation, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to planetary defense against asteroids and other near-Earth object impacts. It is run by former astronauts and engineers who believe that Earth has a 100% chance of being threatened by a devastating asteroid at some point in the future.
nevDd We’ve seen people on skateboards and motorcycles loop the loop many times. Damian Walter is the first human to do it on foot. To run it without falling, you need to reach the right speed; then, centrifugal forces will keep you locked on the track. Note how his shoulder line stays dead centre of the loop. For this particular one, Damian needed to accelerate up to 8.65 mph in the highest point to be able to gain enough inertia as to rotate his body and legs around his head fast enough, so when gravity finally wins, he’s already feet down on the track.
nWKg9 TIL that to some non Americans, American chocolate like Hershey's tastes weird or gross because it contains butyric acid, which is the main chemical responsible for the smell of human vomit, rancid milk, and parmesan cheese