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TIL Tupac Shakur and Tim Roth starred in a movie together as Spoon and Stretch. Two druggies trying to use government assistance to get clean.

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Gewg TIL A single tiger along the India / Nepal border once killed and ate an estimated 430 people.
788DX TIL In 1974 at a Canadian army training base in Quebec, cadets were being trained to handle discarded explosives. A cadet asked one of the instructors if he could pull the pin on the grenade, and the instructor told him it was safe. It exploded, killing 6 cadets and injuring 65 others.
O1xe TIL Ancient Babylonians had a sophisticated understanding of astronomy and were even able to track planets such as Jupiter with mathematical precision.
M7eEV TIL The American Dental Association supports chewing sugarless gum since it increases salivary volume and flow, thus protecting against cavities.
oAbo TIL Goosebumps on the human body are remnants of when we had a lot of body hair. When scared, our hair would “fluff” out, making us look bigger, to scare off predictors.