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TIL Snoop Lion’s son is one of the top high school American football prospects in the country.

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vPGG8 TIL about the Brazen bull a torture device used in Ancient Greece. The condemned were locked inside the stomach, a fire was set under it, heating the metal until the person inside was roasted to death, pipes would transfer the screams through the bull's nostrils, as if the bull was bellowing.
vPmaD TIL: One litre (liter) of bottled water contains, on average, 240,000 pieces of plastic
8LOX TIL, Brian Banks did 5 yrs in jail after a high school girl falsely accused him of rape. She also sued the school district & won $1.5m. Yrs later she admitted to him that she lied. He taped the conversation, his conviction was overturned & the school district sued her back for $2.6m
d8jJQ TIL that some spiders are considered a constitution of our atmosphere
erOD TIL Elon Musk called Apple a ‘graveyard’ for fired Tesla staff stating: “If you don’t make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple. I’m not kidding.”