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TIL aquarium employees told the rap group Salt-N-Pepa that when they put their hit song "Push It" on, the sharks would start mating

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gM6Lb TIL that in 2011, it was discovered by police that the 26 life-sized "dolls" that Russian academic Anatoly Moskvin kept in his apartment each contained a child's corpse. He had dug them up, planning to resurrect them through magic, and built the dolls to give them a body for their resurrection.
gMXQ8 TIL about US government "doomsday planes." They have 5,000+ sq ft of office space, three floors, 57 cases of MRE's, and each window has an EMP shielding grid.
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M7Pd0 TIL the theme song for The Magic School Bus was sung by Little Richard
dom7 TIL Shaquille O'Neal gave fellow NBA superstar Paul Pierce his nickname “The Truth” by stating to a reporter after a game against Pierce, “Take this down. My name is Shaquille O'Neal and Paul Pierce is the motherfucking truth. Quote me on that and don’t take nothing out.”