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TIL Tupac Amaru Shakur was named after Tupac Amaru II who led the largest anti colonial rebellion in Spanish American history in 18th century Peru

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awYAo TIL of Sun Mingming, the tallest basketball player in the world at 7 feet, 9 inches. He along with his wife Xu Yan, is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the world's tallest living couple, with a combined height of 13 feet, 10.72 inches.
oRYAY TIL that Van Gogh, in "The Starry Night," accurately depicted turbulent flow patterns with mathematical precision.
ADBm7 TIL: With India on lockdown, endangered sea turtles are on course to lay 60,000,000 eggs this year. Over 475,000 Olive Ridley sea turtles came ashore, along the coast of the eastern state of Odisha, to dig their nests and lay eggs
OG05a TIL Target secretly adjusts their online prices based on your location even when you are not shopping in store. Shopping in incognito mode shows the true prices. If added to your cart the correct/lower prices will remain after logging into your account, allowing you to pay to true price.
Y7Yox TIL before any details of Pixar’s ‘Soul’ were public, a Black chauffeur told Kemp Powers (the film’s co-writer & co-director) that he knew Pixar was making a Black movie because he had never driven so many Black people to Pixar before.