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TIL that Tupac lost a testicle in a 1994 shooting.

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O5GY TIL: Due to differences in calendars, it is currently 2070 in Nepal and 2006 in Ethiopia.
YmBv TIL In the novel Fight Club, Marla’s line after having sex with Tyler is “I want to have your abortion.” A producer deemed this too offensive, so David Fincher changed it to “I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school,” for the film.
dZ58 TIL the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 essentially repeals the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 by authorizing the U.S. military to perform law enforcement functions on American soil and makes it very easy for the government to suspend Habeas Corpus - AKA declare martial law.
M71Lb TIL that Ryan Cohen pivoted a moment before launching his jewelry business into Chewy because he had an "epiphany" 6 years later he sold it for 3.35 billion dollars
v1ev8 TIL of Brigadier General Edward Lansdale, who in post WWII Philippines used the natives’ belief in vampires and ghosts his psychological warfare campaign. His men were instructed to abduct enemy stragglers, kill them, puncture their necks twice, and then bleed the corpses out. Edited for grammar