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TIL that Tupac was cremated and his ashes were mixed with marijuana and smoked by members of the Outlawz

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wGr6 TIL that “You can’t eat your cake and have it, too” is the correct form of the proverb, because its order is what illustrates the impossibility. The Unabomber got the order correct in both his manifesto & private writing & this was 1 of the linguistic anachronisms that helped the FBI identify him
rRgG0 TIL King Richard Lionheart had more than two thousand Muslim prisoners of war from the captured city of Acre beheaded in front of the Ayyubid armies of sultan Saladin on 20 August 1191.
14NW TIL That the state of Texas has its own power grid to avoid dealing with the US federal government.
018y TIL over 50% of all edits on Wikipedia are done by the 524 most active users
4XeXJ TIL that in Finland there are "open prisons" where you can work for $8 an hour, own cell phones, can do your own grocery shopping and get three days of vacation every couple of months while serving your sentence