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TIL that Tupac lost a testicle in a 1994 shooting.

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9Y6xD TIL that the Eiffel Tower was originally supposed to be in Barcelona but the city thought it would look like an eyesore so Gustave Eiffel was forced to repitch the project elsewhere.
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