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TIL that, once, while on a tour bus, Busta Rhymes heard one of the songs on Eminem’s “Slim Shady EP” and got so into the music that he smashed his head on the windshield of the bus, breaking the whole windshield, because he said Eminem’s music was so compelling and powerful.

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49Qw TIL that in 1938, a Kindergarten teacher who witnessed a burglary was jailed for five days because she wore a pair of slacks into court the day she was called to testify.
E10RX TIL the Ebola Virus should be called Yambuku fever, since that was the village in Zaire where it was identified in 1976 by Peter Piot, a Belgian scientist. Piot decided to name it after the river Ebola, 60 miles from Yambuku, to avoid stigmatizing the village by giving its name to a deadly disease.
XNak TIL in a rubbish dump in Newport, Wales there is a discarded hard drive containing the private key to 7,500 Bitcoins. At today’s US$3,211 Bitcoin price, the hard drive is worth more than US$24,000,000.
Dlpr TIL Gordon Ramsay while filming a scene about puffin hunting fell off an 85 foot cliff into water and survived.
woGL6 TIL the Norwegian oil fund (Norges Bank Investment Management) owns 1,5% af all stocks listed in the world, investing all state profits from its oil. It's current investents $1425 billion USD.