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TIL Ice Cube, Dave Chappelle, Mos Def, Snoop Dogg, T-Pain, Mike Tyson & Shaquille O'Neal are all Muslims.

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mxWxP TIL Pyotr Tchaikovsky's family original last name was Chaika (Seagull) and it was of a distinguished Ukrainian Cossack background. Tchaikovsky wrote more than 30 compositions while in Ukraine, because - "I found a feeling of peace in my soul, which I couldn't find in Moscow and St Petersburg"
nK8o TIL that Lance Armstrong owns a coffee shop called Juan Pelota Cafe. Juan is a homophone for “one” and “pelota” is Spanish for ball.
b6e64 TIL: Götz von Berlichingen was a German mercenary/"Robin Hood". He lost his right arm in 1504 and had a blacksmith make an iron hand with movable fingers to hold a sword could hold a pen. In 1799, Goethe wrote a biography and included the first use of "kiss my a**". (a plaque commemorates this).
Z8DVG TIL about the “smiley face murder theory”, advanced by two retired NYC detectives, that a series of presumed drownings in Midwestern states were actually victims of a serial killer; the name refers to smiley face graffiti found near locations thought to have been used by the killer to dump bodies.
KYevE TIL Times Square in New York was originally called Long Acre Square, but was renamed in 1904 when the New York Times moved their headquarters to the area