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TIL Suge Knight threatened to throw Vanilla Ice off a balcony if he didn’t sign him the rights to ‘Ice Ice Baby’. Suge used the money to fund Death Row Records

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R5wp8 TIL of Rasa von Werder, popularized female bodybuilding, competing along with Arnold in "Best Body" competitions. She also worked as a stripper and minister, later creating her own church. In 2008 she ended 30 years of religious celibacy because God told her to become a "cougar".
6ExDX TIL Winston Churchill was in New York on Black Friday, the crash of 1929, having invested (and lost) the royalties for a book he was writing. He wrote, "I expected to see pandemonium, but the spectacle that met my eyes was one of surprising calm and orderliness."
7v0O TIL the deepest mine in the world, Mponeng in S. Africa, has rock faces 140-degrees due to proximity to Earth’s core, and is inhabited by “ghost minders” – pale criminals armed with AKs and beer bottle grenades who reside in the shafts for months at a time to steal gold.
5RkR TIL Paul McCartney occasionally rides the bus as a normal guy and chats to people. “It grounds you, you know. It’s a balance thing. I’m just one of the people on the bus. I’m the famous one, but I’m behaving normally… Really, it’s important.”
a8oR9 TIL that in 2019 Daniela Leis, driving absolutely wasted after a Marilyn Manson concert, crashed her car into a home. The resulting explosion destroyed four homes, injured seven people and caused damage of $10-15million. She sued the concert organizers for serving her alcohol while intoxicated.