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TIL that for a brief period of time in 2021, Hasbro, the toy company, owned Death Row Records.

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awB9o TIL South Korean criminal law applies to South Korean citizens throughout the world. Since gambling is illegal in South Korea, citizens cannot even gamble overseas.
ADdno TIL Figs are only possible because of fig wasps. Females enter a fig, to lay her eggs and pollinate the fruit. She dies, her eggs hatch, the male mates with the female hatchlings and chew escape holes for females to leave and lay her eggs in another fig. Too tired, the males die in the fig as well.
v15pL TIL to prepare for the role of Mark Renton in Trainspotting; Ewan McGregor considered injecting heroin to better understand the character.
loOBG TIL of Sgt Pilcher, who in 1960s London arrested Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Donovan, George Harrison, John Lennon, among others, for drugs possession. He almost got Eric Clapton, but the guitarist legged it out the back when Pilcher claimed to be the postman with a special delivery.
O8KX TIL that George Bush’s Wikipedia page is the number one most controversial Wikipedia page as determined by the amount of times that someone changed something on the page only to have someone else come and change it back to the previous wording.