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TIL when DMX was facing 5 yrs in prison for tax evasion, his lawyer played his song "Slippin'" for the judge to illustrate how far he had come since his "horrific childhood" in the hope for leniency. Indeed, the judge was affected by the circumstances of DMX's upbringing & sentenced him to just a yr

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78bw7 TIL the inventor of the Frisbee was turned into a Frisbee after he died .His ashes were molded into a limited edition batch of flying discs.
e64J TIL Right before Buddy Holly’s death which was caused by plane crash, bandmate Waylon Jennings joked “Well, I hope your ol’ plane crashes!” A statement which haunted him the rest of his life.
0dWNL TIL that lead shielding during an X-ray not only isn’t necessary but may expose you to even more radiation
XEbQr TIL that squeezing someone's testicles forcefully can kill them
Z8XrD TIL that standard QWERTY keyboards are used in China. Chinese users are familiar with the sounds that Latin letters make, and they type in the way their characters sound when spoken out loud. Software then translates the sound they typed into a Chinese character.