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TIL: Cameron Diaz and Snoop Dogg used to go to the same high school and she bought weed from him

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KYBk4 TIL Little Richard's Tutti Frutti peaked lower in the Billboard pop chart than a toned down cash-in cover version by Pat Boone
x6NM0 TIL about mechanical television from the 20s and 30s, which used a rotating device to scan a scene and generate a signal which would then be viewed on the other end similarly
JYByl TIL that when Auschwitz camp commander Rudolf Höss was accused of murdering three and a half million people during a trial, Höss replied, "No. Only two and one half million—the rest died from disease and starvation."
wLM91 TIL when Fidel Castro was 14 he wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt & asked him for a 10 dollar bill because he admired America.
9wPZD TIL Carlos Santana hears from angels since reading a book about them from a Milwaukee airport. Since 1994, the high-angel Metatron speaks through him ("like a fax machine") & convinced him to make an album. This became the Grammy-sweeping "Supernatural"— which includes "Smooth [ft. Rob Thomas]"