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TIL, after being fatally shot in 1996, Tupac Shakur’s last and only words to assisting police were “fuck you”. He refused to say anything else.

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X0Jm8 TIL The moderen shipping container called CONEX box (CONtainer, EXpress) was invited for Korea and Vietnam war then reinvented by Malcom McLean, a now defunct company.
arky TIL we have been to the deepest parts of the ocean, only to find that our own trash beat us there.
AKMd TIL More then 1,400 children where abducted, raped, tortured and trafficked in the sex trade from England between 1997 and 2013. The government covered it up because it would be “giving oxygen” to racism.
4j15 TIL of Whipping Tom, the name given to two serial spankers in London in the 17th & 18th centuries. “On seeing an unaccompanied woman, he would grab her, lift her dress, and slap her buttocks repeatedly before fleeing. He would sometimes accompany his attacks by shouting "Spanko!”“
v1lb8 TIL: About the hollywood heart attack. In media heart attacks are shown to have a sudden onset, when in reality most do not.