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TIL Tommy Chong, of Cheech and Chong, was cell mates with Jordan Belfort and encouraged him to write his autobiography “The Wolf of Wall Street”

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p8kAN TIL that NCAA basketball players’ numbers are required to be base 6 so that referees can signal the two numbers with fingers on each hand.
rREao TIL: Despite Area 51 operating as early as 1955, it was only publicly acknowledged by the CIA in 2013.
yjEJ TIL that the Grand Mosque of Paris provided refuge and muslim IDs for Jews trying to escape the clutches of the axis powers and the holocaust during WW II.
rNeRx TIL During the 19th Century, a popular medicine for children known as ‘Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’, which promised to “allay all pains” was heavily laced with morphine.
yQw5p TIL that E is the most used letter in the English language, at 13%, and Z is the least used, at 0.074%