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TIL in Sept 2023 a grand jury indicted Duane Davis for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur. He allegedly planned and ordered the hit in retaliation for his late nephew, Orlando Anderson, being beaten in a casino earlier that night. He's reportedly the last surviving participant of Shakur's murder.

neL4P TIL about Chumboxes, a grid of clickbait articles found on a majority of news sites. Over 80% of these articles are ads and are focused on things like miracle cures and images of pills
BrlVe TIL From her very first steps to her adult years, Maya Picasso was an inspiration and muse to her father, who would draw (the drawing of Maya as a newborn is of a rare tenderness), paint and photograph her. Paris’ Gagosian gallery hosted the exhibit "Picasso et Maya: Père et Fille" in 2017
dBpj TIL the hoverboard was invented for real in April 2016. Powered by six compact jet engines totaling 1000 HP (equivalent to four automobile engines), and stabilized with Segway-like algorithmic balancing, it has a flight time of 10 minutes using a camelbak filled with jet fuel.
oBrwK TIL That the film "National Lampoon's Van Wilder" was based on the life of comedian Bert Kreischer. Kreischer is known for his partying antics, and for his "Machine" story where he talks about robbing a train with Russian mafia while on a class field trip during his senior year at FSU.
eN5L TIL that “The Simpsons Guy”, a 2014 crossover between The Simpsons and Family Guy, was described by one critic as a “blight on humanity itself”