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TIL: Floyd Mayweather is virtually illiterate.

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4AG5 TIL that a Russian scientist accidentally shot a proton beam through his own head with a large particle accelerator in 1978. Reportedly, he saw a flash “brighter than a thousand suns,” but did not feel any pain.
v1WbL TIL Wayne Brady did a Chappelle's show skit because Paul Mooney's Roast offended him
lD17 TIL the Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest structure in the world until the year 1300. The building that replaced it collapsed, so from 1549 to 1884 the tallest structure in the world was not the tallest ever.
gbD9 TIL that up to half of the people who buy vinyl records do not listen to them.
j6Y5R TIL that Rowlatt Act, an act to repress people's civil rights in India was passed by Sir Sidney Rowlatt in 1919. His son, Sir John Rowlatt became the architect of the Government of India Act, 1935, which is the skeleton on which the present day Indian Constitution was drafted