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TIL Willie Nelson smoked a joint on the rooftop of the White House as Secret Service looked on.

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EgQwo TIL in 2009, a hard ground ball hit Adrián Beltré in the groin which landed him on the 15-day disabled list. In his first game after returning, teammate Ken Griffey Jr. conspired with those in charge of the PA system to have Beltré's at-bat intro music be the opening march from The Nutcracker Suite.
QJNp6 TIL: All of Tom Cruise's wives Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes were aged 33 when their marriages ended
PYaBe TIL Jame Watson (co-discoverer of DNA) decided to auction off his Nobel prize medal in view of his diminished income, for US$4.1 million. The medal was subsequently returned to Watson by the purchaser, Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov.
RE8a TIL that Universal’s highest grossing production is actually the Broadway musical Wicked, which outgrossed even Jurassic World.
1OaP TIL that Nazi Germany had a research programme (Wunderwaffe) that included a stealth bomber, night vision, a 1,500 ton super tank, submarine aircraft carrier, an x-ray gun, and a satellite with a concave mirror to “make an ocean boil or burn a city”.