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TIL University of Exeter offering master's degree in magic and the occult science

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LQkYQ TIL that the first Fast and Furious movie was loosely based on Rafael Estevez' street racing career, and the first drag wars which was sponsored by Penzoil and HKS, in which he did a 11.36 second pass with a turboed Integra GSR engine in a 92 Civic, claiming the title of fastest east coast civic.
OAdX TIL Stephen Hawking provided the voice of his own head in a jar on Futurama.
J8xj TIL that the ‘Cinnamon Challenge’ can result in a collapsed lung
Brk5b TIL Years after her death, an archive of Marilyn Monroe’s poems, letters, notes, recipes, and diary entries surfaced. The archive included Monroe admitting that her first marriage, at the age of 16, was to keep her out of the orphanage when her caretaker was in the psychiatric hospital.
98K7 TIL that the Catholic church owns a billion dollar media firm that sells pornography and erotica.