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TIL Mike Tyson originally wanted his face tattoo to depict hearts, but his tattooist refused to do it.

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PYdBJ TIL Reagan's Secretary of State George Shultz tried to rat f*ck his whistleblower grandson and stuck him with a four to five hundred thousand legal bill in an attempt to protect his own financial interest in disgraced blood testing company Theranos.
nexWd TIL of "Project Sandstorm", a sandstorm alarm in the works that uses Darude's Sandstorm as its alarm tone which increases in speed and volume depending on the severity of the storm
j6rXQ TIL there was a popular cocktail in the Wild West called "Tarantula Juice" made from wood alcohol, rosin, tobacco oil, sulfuric acid, hydrogen cyanide, and strychnine. It had effects similar to meth and produced muscle spasms that felt like having dozens of baby tarantulas crawling on your skin
W77g4 TIL Mount Hua is a mountain located near the city of Huayin in Shaanxi Province of China. It is the one of the Five Great Mountains of China and has a long history of religious significance. The route up the mountain has been called one of the most dangerous hikes in the world.
OoM0X TIL that if Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" was unable to be used, the pub fight scene in "Shaun Of The Dead" would have been set to Boney M's "Rasputin"