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TIL that the Geto Boys' 1991 album We Can't Be Stopped was taken in the hospital the day after Bushwick Bill was shot in the eye. High on PCP and drunk on Everclear, he said he shot himself during a tussle with his girlfriend, but later stated he told his mother to shoot him for insurance money.

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KO9XR TIL that in Norway, people use the term "texas" as slang for "crazy". It doesn't refer to a person, but a chaotic atmosphere or state of mind, so saying a party "was totally crazy!" in Norwegian would be "det var helt texas!", which literally means "it was texas!"
LkyRv TIL In 1732 Jonathan Swift wrote a poem about a man who sneaks into his mistress' dressing room and smells her filthy chamber pot full of poop.
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