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TIL Denzel Washington’s character in Training Day is based on a real life LAPD officer named Rafael Perez, who is suspected of playing a role in the murder of the Notorious B.I.G.

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e09KD TIL that Arthur C. Clarke (served RAF there), Simon Pegg (studied there), Gordon Ramsay (moved there at age 9), and of course William Shakespeare (lived there) all were connected with the small locus of Stradford-Upon-Avon in England.
p8QGp TIL a then unknown Bob Dylan starred in the television play “Madhouse on Castle Street” on the BBC in 1963. It was later junked and no copies have survived. It is considered a lost artwork.
6jlX TIL that out of the TOP500 super computers, none of them run on Windows. 498 of them use the Linux kernel. The remaining 2 use AIX, a variant of Unix.
KYQoR TIL that a study on 'strategic ejaculation' found that heterosexual men ejaculate more quickly and produced higher quality ejaculates (volume & total number of motile sperm) when masturbating to unfamiliar women.
Pelw TIL if the bombs in the cafeteria of Columbine High School had exploded, they would have killed 488 students.