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TIL that Tupac lost a testicle in a 1994 shooting.

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0wQ8L TIL a 2008 poll of corporate users showed that only 8% of them were "very satisfied" with Windows Vista, while 40% were "very satisfied" with Windows XP.
yVWDl TIL after the Panama-Pacific International Exposition ended, one of its exhibitions, The Ohio Building, was sold at auction. It was then mounted on skids and dragged to the marina where it was pulled aboard two barges and embarked on its voyage floating to San Carlos harbor.
wLgY TIL in 1985, the Soviet Union compiled a secret list of 38 “ideologically harmful” western bands, which included Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Depeche Mode, and the Village People.
4XODg TIL that after Camilla Parker Bowles married Prince Charles, the Queen changed the rules of protocol so that her children and grandchildren don't have to bow/curtsy to Camilla if Charles is not present
gM607 TIL that if it were not for the vacuum in space, the roaring of the sun - which would equate to roughly 100 decibels (the equivalent to a chainsaw's volume in close proximity) - would leave all us Earthlings deaf within the course of a day.