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TIL The first responding Las Vegas police officer on the scene of Tupac’s infamous 1996 murder asked the dying rapper, “Who shot you?” Tupac’s response and final words were “Fuck you.”

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D1KMP TIL about CONPLAN 3551-09, a us military plan to combat a pandemic level outbreak of Influenza.
OGy9Y TIL Jim Corbett, the famous hunter of man eating lions and tigers in the early 1900's had a movie made based on his life. It was so bad he said of the movie that "The best actor was the tiger."
LkAjQ TIL when they first opened the ride Pirates of the Caribbean in Disneyland the design team was disappointed with the look of the fake bones they used so they used real skeletal remains instead and there is allegedly still a real human skull in the ride today
VMapk TIL Legendary Mötorhead bassist Lemmy Kilmister had his ashes put into bullets and gave them to his closest friends when he died.
yQrKV TIL United Passions was a 2014 film about FIFA funded 90% by FIFA. Its release coincided with the 2015 FIFA corruption scandal where it grossed $918 in its opening weekend (worst ever), a 0% RT rating and star Tim Roth asked the people behind the film "Where is all the corruption in the script?"