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TIL Snoop Dogg Was Cameron Diaz’s Pot Dealer In High School

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GLm7 TIL Before Darrell Dimebag Abbott was murdered on stage, Eddie Van Halen had agreed to make him a copy of his original 1979 Bumblebee guitar but never got around to it. Upon hearing of his tragic death, Eddie placed his actual Bumblebee guitar inside his casket.
yVDZV TIL that in space, two pieces of the same metal can fuse together permanently without any heat or welding—a phenomenon known as "cold welding."
XNnk TIL Some breakfast cereals, like Wheaties, are fortified with enough iron that individual flakes can be lifted and carried using common magnets.
Wkdno TIL in 1978 a plane suddenly disappeared flying over Bass strait, the last communication of pilot was, ' huge strange aircraft is hovering of top of plane'. after a pause, 'It is not an aircraft'. Disappearance still remains mystery
D1P9V TIL that during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, many black citizens, widely believed to be immune to the disease, volunteered to deal with the dead and dying as white citizens fled the city. The immunity seems to have not actually existed, and blacks died at the same rates as whites.