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TIL that Snoop Dogg runs a football league for at risk youth in LA, completely self funded.

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lovaa TIL the Himalayan giant honey bee naturally produces hallucinogenic honey that was once used to poison the army of Pompey the Great.
WkNN4 TIL in 1908, a meteor exploded over Siberia and flattened over 770 sq miles (2000 km) of forests. Though it disintegrated ~3 miles above Earth, it created an airburst with 1000x more energy than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Incredibly, only 3 people were killed.
YpJ4P TIL The when the first McDonald's opened in Moscow in 1990, hours long lines of thousands of people turned out for the grand opening and the long lines persisted into at least 1992.
e0WXJ TIL in order to improve speech-to-text, many 'private' Alexa conversations are being listened to by real people. An investigation found that these employees have group chats where they share recordings they find funny.
GYKZj TIL that basketball legend Calvin Murphy was a nationally renowned baton twirler. In 1977, at the height of his career, he was Texas State Men’s Twirling champ.