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

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GAKkj TIL about Chica Da Silva, a mixed slave woman born in Brazil. She used her wiles and hid her identity to become the most powerful woman in 1700s Brazil.
6EVp7 TIL that after 2 years of using a Catalan mercenary company to fight the Turks, the Byzantine emperor betrayed the company and tried to wipe them out in 1305. The mercenaries went on a rampage so destructive that the monks of Mount Athos only lifted their ban of Catalan citizens in the year 2000.
grZj8 TIL Hugh Jackman took a pay cut to ensure "Logan" would be rated R. Since 'R-rated' films typically limit the overall audience that can attend, Jackman's reduced salary brought the budget down to an acceptable place to warrant an R rating.
NbVP TIL Volvo decided to release the patent for the three-point seatbelt because they believed the lives it was likely to save was more significant than profit
gMWeA TIL that a 2016 study found that the Thunder Mountain roller coaster at Disney World reliably makes people pass kidney stones.