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TIL Axl Rose has a greater vocal range than Mariah Carey and sang lower notes than Barry White

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ROg8 TIL when Yao Ming played his first game in Miami, the Heat promoted the game by passing out 8,000 fortune cookies. Yao wasn’t offended because he had never seen a fortune cookie, and assumed it was an American invention
xVp00 TIL that "pink slime" is a meat by-product produced by heating and centrifuging beef trimmings. It is approved for limited human consumption in the United States but is banned for human consumption in the European Union.
e06wJ TIL that in 1997, a poacher wounded a tiger and stole part of its kill. The tiger found the poacher's cabin, destroyed his belongings, waited at least half a day for him to return, then killed and ate him.
vPBp8 TIL: Abraham Lincoln told his biographer, friend, and law partner of 18 years, William Hearndon, how he had been infected with syphilis in 1835 or 1836 (by a prostitute). Hearndon, believing both Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln had syphilis, suspected it in the premature death of 3 Lincoln children
lo7WG TIL: Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was the first movie to show a toilet on screen