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TIL that Lenny Kravitz and Al Roker are second cousins

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m1VoP TIL in 2006 Russian police arrested nearly 100 people for participating in a mass brawl. After being taken to the local police station, they were all released without charge when officers realized they were players and supporters who were taking part in a rugby match
awG0J TIL R.E.M.’s “Man on the Moon” lyrics repeat “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah”. Michael Stipe said his friend Kurt Cobain had a habit of placing "yeah" in Nirvana songs so Stipe wanted to outdo him by writing a song with more “yeahs”
6EwoJ TIL about Cronus, the tarantula who whipped the Tory party in the United Kingdom. He is the pet of former chief whip Gavin Williamson. He kept Cronus positioned on his desk in his office in the Hous of Commons in order to intimidate MPs to vote with the government.
4GEJ TIL that in the 5th century, St. Benedict wrote a rule book for monks. He convinced them to be celibate, poor, to get up in the middle of the night to pray, to engage in hard labor and almost no conversation, to obey the orders of their abbott … but he couldn’t convince them to give up the booze.
4WD5 TIL the highest fee for crossing the Panama Canal was $375,600, while the lowest fee was 36 cents by someone who swam through it