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TIL: The Florida Man Games are a thing.

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78oEr TIL Aretha Franklin required that she be paid in cash before any performance. The cash went into her handbag and the handbag either stayed with her security team or would rest on the piano during her onstage performance.
1m6r TIL a time capsule was buried in Sir Frederick Banting Square, on the scientist’s 100th birthday, Nov. 14, 1991. Banting was part of a team that received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the isolation of insulin. The time capsule will be opened once a cure for diabetes has been found.
JNKv TIL that United Kingdom and USA are the only two western countries that are listed as “Enemies of the Internet”.
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