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TIL that Tupac Shakur was a ballet dancer growing up and played The Mouse King in a production of The Nutcracker

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6Wbw TIL actor Benedict Cumberbatch was kidnapped and held at gunpoint before being released in the middle of South Africa with no explanation from his captors
E1gAx TIL that 19-yo Tom Lyle Williams created the mascara "Maybelline" in 1915 when his sister Maybel used a mixture of VaseLINE and coaldust to darken her eyelashes after a mishap.
16008 TIL: In Laos, as of last year, meth prices dropped to $0.25, making it cheaper than beer. Laos now joins Myanmar and Thailand as having the cheapest meth in the world.
Y7Ypd TIL that actor Oliver Reed died after challenging a group of Royal Navy sailors to a drinking match in a pub and collapsing, during a break from filming "Gladiator". Despite this, he was still nominated for a BAFTA for his role in the movie
woJRM TIL “Double Sunrise” was a flight operated by Qantas in 1943 between Australia and Sri Lanka that used to take nearly 28 hours observing two sunrises