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TIL Willie Nelson smoked weed at the White House with Jimmy Carter’s son

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W75eX TIL that Billy Mitchell sued Cartoon Network for infringing his likeness with the Regular Show character GBF, a giant floating head who cheats at arcade games. Mitchell's lawsuit was dismissed, in part because "when GBF loses his title, the character literally explodes, unlike Plaintiff".
OGJNY TIL that there were women gladiators, known as “gladiatrices”. They fought against each other or against animals to entertain their audience.
lo4RG TIL English words with Arabic origin include: alcohol, algorithm, assassin, average, candy, chemistry, coffee, cotton, lemon, orange, magazine, mattress, sofa, traffic, and zero
0wvXj TIL In China, a crayfish detached its own claw over a boiling pot of soup in order to escape being cooked. It sacrificed its limb to save its own life. It was later adopted as a pet by a user of the Chinese social media site Weibo.
OknY TIL in Gravesend, England, there is a whole fake town used by police to simulate dangerous situations. Fake streets, houses, parks, nightclubs, estates, aircraft, trains and tube stations are used to stage riots, robberies, hostage situations and terrorist attacks.