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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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4keYX TIL that LaMarcus Thompson, the father of the American roller coaster, invented the first coasters on Coney Island because he thought the world was too sinful and needed more moral entertainment
QJlN6 TIL that, in 1964, a group of college students used garden spades to tunnel under the Berlin Wall into East Berlin, allowing 57 people to escape to the West. The students moved enough dirt to fill four eighteen-wheeler big rigs; one of them went on to design tunnels professionally.
e0Wl4 TIL about Clay Dyer. A professional bass fisherman that was born without arms or legs, and is almost completely dependent while fishing
Y7MkB TIL that snakes can save us from Earthquakes!
b9aka TIL that Cherokee called the town of Nowata, Oklahoma "Amadikanigvnagvna", meaning "the water is all gone from here", i.e. "no water."