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TIL Kelis - whose milkshake brings all the boys to the yard - is now a professional chef

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Zv0p TIL that Blue whales are among the loudest animals on the planet, and might hear each other up to 1,000 miles away.
LQ0MQ TIL of a reporter who commissioned a paper from an academic ghostwriting agency to expose the "black market" for college assignments. Instead, the paper got an A-.
69gkw TIL that the 11th Earl of Warwick was highly feared by his French enemies and nicknamed “The Devil Warwick”, so when he invaded Calais, his opponents ran away rather than fight him.
kkA5 TIL that George Clooney was asked to play himself in a sketch for the Movie 43 (the gag was that Clooney is bad at picking up women), and Clooney replied “No fucking way.”
a8gBA TIL the Buddhas of Bamiyan were built in 570 and 618 CE and were a holy site for buddhas along the Silk Road. They were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.