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TIL that Tupac lost a testicle in a 1994 shooting.

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m1P6o TIL of an archeological dig site northeast of the Dead Sea in the southern Jordan River Valley that has many striking characteristics to the Biblical city of Sodom.
lNa7 TIL That a Syrian Bear had the rank of Corporal in the Polish Army during WW2, and after the War would be visited by former soldiers from his company and given cigarettes, which he would eat because there was no one to light them for him.
VBM7k TIL that the Shunganunga boulder, a 23-ton red quartzite rock, was moved by glaciers from the Dakotas to Kansas hundreds of thousands of years ago; the boulder is sacred to the Kanza tribe (expelled from the state named after them) and Shunganunga translates to "Big Red Rock" in their language.
ZjoG TIL Hundreds of prisoners were left to die in their cells during hurricane Katrina as officials abandoned Orleans Parish Prison.
0dAZ1 TIL that Agave - the source of all tequila - is a member of the Asparagus family