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TIL that Tupac Shakur's group, "The Outlawz", smoked some of his body's ashes after mixing them with marijuana.

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GZwE TIL that in the book version of Stephen King’s “It”, after the six kids (who are the age of 11) defeat Pennywise, they all decide to have sex with Beverly (the one girl out of the six) in the sewer, by her invitation.
Oov7X TIL that there is a tribe in Papua New Guinea which has ritualized homosexuality and semen ingestion practice with boys
4kpB5 TIL John B. Stetson invented the cowboy hat after moving out West to treat his tuberculosis.
0dg0M TIL that Admiral Nelson's Spanish opponent at the Battle of Trafalgar, Federico Gravina said "I am a dying man, but I die happy; I am going, I hope and trust, to join Nelson, the greatest hero that the world perhaps has produced." while dying from wounds sustained during the battle
PBVE TIL Early movie theaters in Japan hired benshi, storytellers who sat next to the screen and narrated silent movies. They were descendants of kabuki jōruri, kōdan storytellers, and other forms of oral storytelling. With the advent of sound in the early 1930s, the benshi gradually disappeared.