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TIL that former NBA player and devout Mormon, Shawn Bradley, was once fined $10k for not going to a mandatory team meeting at a strip club

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Xyjk TIL of The Stoned Ape Theory, which is a controversial theory from Terence McKenna which states that a lot of our advanced human evolution came as a result of the ingestion of psilocybin mushrooms, also known as magic mushrooms by our primate ancestors.
j6VQQ TIL that in 1999, Sergio Motsoeneng ran part of the Comrades Marathon, then went into a mobile toilet to switch places with his twin brother. They won 9th place and the equivalent of about $500, but got caught when a newspaper published photos of them wearing their watches on opposite wrists.
oRygo TIL about the Zebra Murders a string of racially motivated serial killings in California that killed up to 15 people.
R7NJj TIL Completely normal hens lay eggs with red yolks if you feed them Paprika or other feed containing Red Carotenoids.
74np TIL that there’s a museum called “Chinsekikan” in Japan that contains nothing but rocks that look like faces. Chinsekikan means “Hall of curious rocks” in English