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TIL that Willie Nelson is the only person to out-smoke Snoop Dogg.

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m7ey TIL Red Cross raised half a billion dollars in donations for the Haiti earthquake recovery, but only built 6 houses
5VARn TIL when Brazilian football/soccer player Pelé died last December, he was survived by his 100-year-old mother, Celeste, who, given her advanced age, did not understand her son's death. Pelé's sister Maria Lucia do Nascimento described their mother as "in her own little world."
DNNr TIL the first drink referred to as a “cocktail” was what is now known as an Old Fashioned. It was the original cocktail.
wLReW TIL- A massive nuclear disaster occurred in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico when a decommissioned radio therapy machine used for cancer treatment was disassembled by a cleaning crew. They then delivered the cobalt 60 to a junkyard which then used contaminated metal in construction projects around Mexico.
6EyK8 TIL Qian Xuesen was a Chinese scientist/colonel in the US army partially responsible for helping America go to space. But because of racism, he was deported to China. He was the father of Chinese rocketry and is one of the reasons why China is a world power today with ICBMS.