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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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P18Vg TIL that during World War II, the Danish resistance movement smuggled the Jews out of Denmark before the Nazis could send them to the concentration camps, in part by going through telephone books and warning everyone with Jewish-sounding names to go into hiding.
8ab6X TIL about pod corn, a form of maize that develops leaves over its kernels as a result a mutated gene
BgKK TIL will.i.am of Black Eyed Peas fame started a car company, and tried to pass off a modified Delorean as his own original concept car. The car was later impounded by police when they caught him driving it illegally on public roads.
ayZL TIL of Wong Chin Foo, a 19th century Chinese-American civil rights activist. He launched NYC’s first Chinese newspaper and was active in politics. Wong once challenged Denis Kearney, an anti-Chinese demagogue, to a duel. He offered Kearney “his choice of chopsticks, Irish potatoes or Krupp guns.”
M7KYA TIL the Big Box store concept was pioneered by the Rhode Island based Ann & Hope retailer. The Kmart and Walmart founders, among others, borrowed features for their own stores.