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TIL Suge Knight’s girlfriend who was about to testify against him disappeared and hasn’t been found since 2008. When all charges were cleared Suge Knight said “God is good, Happy Holidays”

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LQNl0 TIL that there is a German word for “Capitalism Heyday”, Hochkapitalismus, which is the period from 1800 to the First World War
wo0LM TIL that Magellan's expedition, which began with approximately 270 crew members aboard five ships, concluded nearly three years later with only 18 survivors returning on a single vessel.
mxyyO TIL that roads are built to accommodate whatever uses them and back in Ancient Rome this was a chariot or two horses asses, which was than used to gauge railway, which was than used to gauge the solid rocket boosters on the space shuttle.
mxZ6E TIL: Take any prime number above 3 and square it then -1 and it will always be a multiple of 24!
4Y6o TIL that the Wachowskis asked Warner Bros. for $80 million to make The Matrix but only got $10 million approved, so they decided to spend all of that money on the opening sequence. They showed it to the Warner executives who were so impressed that they gave them their original budget.