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TIL that after Tupac died, his remains were cremated, mixed with weed and smoked by the members of his hip-hop band - Outlawz.

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e0lvD TIL on a 1995 visit to Washington D.C., Russian President Boris Yeltsin was found on Pennsylvania Avenue, drunk, in his underwear and trying to hail a cab in order to find pizza.
gMryb TIL In order to rescue Ethiopian Jews, the Mossad bought and ran a profitable scuba diving resort in Sudan between 1982 and 1984. 8,000 people were safely smuggled to Israel.
4b55 TIL Verne Troyer, the actor best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers movies, was born into an Amish family.
grAQb TIL that the song Old Shep (written by Red Foley and made famous by Elvis), is based on dog Foley owned as a child, that, in reality, was poisoned by a neighbor.
R5RD1 TIL about the first Crowdfunded Indian movie Manthan (Hindi), which was about the dairy cooperative pioneer Verghese Kurien who started the "White revolution" in India. The film was entirely funded by 500,000 dairy farmers each contributing Rs 2, showing the success of "collective might".