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TIL 50 Cent challenged Floyd Mayweather to read one full page of a 'Harry Potter' book out loud without starting and stopping or messing up. If Floyd Mayweather accomplished this, 50 Cent agreed to donate $750,000 to a charity of Mayweather’s choice. Floyd Mayweather ultimately declined the offer.

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1ajAO TIL that the Empire State Building's opening coincided with the Great Depression in the United States, and as a result much of its office space was vacant from its opening. The lack of renters led New Yorkers to deride the building as the "Empty State Building".
Z8ePp TIL that george harrinson got the first number one hit with " my sweet lord" in december 1970, then mccartney with "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” in September 1971, then ringo with "Photograph” in November 1973 and finally john with "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night,” feat. Elton John november 1974
OvL1 TIL of Hajimi Fuji, who volunteered for the kamikaze but was refused acceptance because he had a wife and two young children. To honour his wish his wife drowned her two young girls and drowned herself. Hajimi then flew as a kamikaze pilot,meeting his death on the 28th May 1945.
RVy1 TIL “APACHE N4SIR” was the last man on earth to play on the original Xbox’s Live Service, for nearly 30 days after it was discontinued.
x9Zk TIL: It takes a 10-person team to unlock the 22-ton bank vault at Fort Knox - still the most impenetrable vault in the world. Roughly 3% of all the gold ever refined in human history is stored there.