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TIL Shaq has been a DJ since 1986, and goes by the stage name DJ Diesel. He used to mix Hip Hop music until his retirement in 2011, where he performed at the TomorrowWorld Electronic Music Festival and discovered his love for electro. He now mixes Electronic genres, mostly riddim dubstep

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78QWZ TIL That Lewis Carrol's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" requires great creativity on the part of translators as they need to invent nonsense words that evoke similar feelings to each made-up word in the English original.
o0rA TIL that the Pope can appoint secret cardinals, and even the selected individual may not know he has cardinal status. The name can be made public at any time, but if the pope dies before revealing the name of a secret cardinal, the individual will no longer be a cardinal.
XEeNr TIL that after Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said NBA referee manager Ed Rush "wouldn't be able to manage a Dairy Queen", Dairy Queen management took offence and offered to let Cuban manage a Dairy Queen for a day. Cuban accepted.
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Z81BR TIL polar bears have a black skin with a transparent fur to absorb the sun's heat. They appear white because the air spaces of each hair scatters the light in all directions.