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TIL Rapper Busta Rhymes voiced Reptar from Rugrats

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GAklJ TIL Renovation of the historical Battersea Power station in London cost £9bn (USD 10.8bn). It has luxury apartments, hotel, restaurants, and a roof top pool. One chimney has a glass elevator (lift 109) going to the top. Hotel rooms have vinyl record players, and of course Pink Floyd's Animals!
gMGGA TIL Hall of Fame boxer Julio Cesar Chavez grew up with 10 brothers and sisters in an abandoned railroad car in Culiacan. When he gained fame as a professional fighter, Chavez would fight in exhibitions to raise money for the poor in Mexico, often giving out of his own pocket.
47Vg TIL that when South Park did an episode on Tourettes, the Tourettes Association said they expected it to be offensive. After broadcast, they conceded there was “a surprising amount of accurate information conveyed”, adding that the episode “served as a clever device” for providing accurate facts.
PY4KG TIL Queen Elizabeth II is an admiral of the Great Navy of Nebraska, the only triply landlocked state of the USA.
M7BBa Today I learned there has been 61 Olympic game defectors