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TIL Tequila literally means "it screws you"

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BrlZD TIL Michael Jackson planned an ultimately-cancelled Las Vegas residency in 2005, and among one of the plans was a 50-foot MJ robot that would roam the Nevada desert visible to tourists entering from their airport and was meant to advertise his show
7r9eM TIL that there is 1400 tons of unexploded (and rapidly degrading) munitions 1.5 miles off the coast of Kent (UK). If it explodes, it would likely cause a bigger explosion than the one in Beirut.
W7jYA TIl that in 2021 two rival taxi operators were involved in a dispute over lucrative taxi routes in Cape Town South Africa. It escalated into a full blown armed conflict that killed 83 people
X0ZjD TIL that Joro spiders, extremely large orb weavers native to Japan but introduced to America, are eating invasive crop-destroying pests such as stink bugs instead of being invasive themselves.
bmPj TIL that when a suicide bomber tried to enter an Israeli supermarket, the security guard stopped her and said, “You will not enter the market. You and I will blow up here.”