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TIL Shaquille O'Neal's fifth rap album was scheduled for release on 2001/09/11 but was mysteriously abandoned

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NX7x6 TIL Taushiro, Tanema and Kaixana are the least spoken languages in the world, with only one speaker each. They are languages of Peru, Solomon Islands and Brazil, respectively.
VwjG TIL that in 2010 a british policeman drove an Ice cream van into the middle of a riot and played “ice-cream van” music in an attempt to calm the youths. The official report was, ‘humour defused the situation and the trouble stopped’.
M7gwW TIL that the first comic movie ever nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars was Skippy, nominated in 1931.
QJOke TIL about Otávio Jordão da Silva, a 20 year old Brazilian soccer/football referee who was stoned, beheaded, and quartered by spectators after he stabbed a player who punched him for making a controversial call. His head was put on a stake in the field.
Lkwa0 TIL that on July 28 1866 at the age of 18, Vinnie Ream becomes the first and youngest female artist to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue of Abraham Lincoln.