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TIL In 1984 Anthony Tiffith robbed the chicken joint where Kenny Duckworth worked, but spared his life after taking a liking to him. Years later, Anthony would go on to found Top Dawg Ent. and unknowingly sign Duckworth's son, Kendrick Lamar, to his first record deal.

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XxYD TIL the dinosaurs featured in the film Pee Wee’s Big Adventure are now part of a Creationist Museum that claims the earth is around 6,000 years old.
l7j0G TIL that the phrase "forecasting" was invented by Admiral Robert Fitzroy, founder of the Metrological Department (the precursor to the British Met Office) and captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin’s voyage. He was a Victorian celebrity, nicknamed "The Clerk of the Weather."
Bg0RW TIL under the care of the unconventional Dr. Theodor Morell, from 1936 to 1945 Adolf Hitler was administered 74 different medical substances (in 28 different mixtures) for various ailments, including an injection of methamphetamine to fight grogginess.
WkNYB TIL after slavery in the United States was outlawed by the 13th Amendment in 1865, the Abolitionist newspaper The Liberator reorganized itself as a general news magazine and is now known as The Nation.
8O0P TIL in 1987 a barge left New York for North Carolina hauling 3,168 tons of trash. NC turned it away, and it traveled for 7 months trying and failing to find someone to take it. It sparked a national conversation about landfills and recycling.