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TIL Tony Hawk’s son is married to Kurt Cobain’s daughter

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nPV7 TIL the taco’s origin is unknown, but it was popularized by a group of “available” Mexican women called “the Chili Queens”.
D14Lp TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger made his first million dollars in real estate during the 70s, years before starring in his first movie.
mw4y TIL Churchill had two secret plans created in case he needed to go to war with the USSR, called Operation Unthinkable. These plans were so secretive, they weren’t revealed to the public until 1998.
QkGE TIL: 2/3 of US population is one paycheck away from homelessness
OLmY TIL that in 2006, it took Akira Haraguchi, a retired Japanese engineer, 16 hours to recite the first 100,000 digits of pi from memory only. To prove that the exercice was legitimate, everything was filmed, even his trips to the toilet. Despite this, he has yet to receive a Guinness World Record.