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TIL: The Notrious B.I.G. had 2 kids and his son recently graduated high school and proposed to his boyfriend.

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RW1w TIL an almost-invisible square metre sheet of graphene could be made into a hammock to hold the weight of a 4kg cat, despite weighing less than one of the cat’s whiskers
b6Bk0 TIL that 1.3 million Americans have a Top Secret security clearance
rR4pw TIL that Suzanne Vega is considered the “Mother of the MP3” because her song “Tom’s Diner” was used to test the algorithm for the mp3: if it could be compressed without losing the warmth in her voice than it would work on anything
kJrnW TIL a study has shown participants who started consuming kiwis regularly before bed were able to fall asleep 42% faster than they did before.
wm0J TIL in 2000, Pope John Paul II gave his blessing to the Pokémon franchise, saying the games did not have “any harmful moral side effects” and were based on “ties of intense friendship”.