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TIL That after 50 Cent challenged Floyd Mayweather to read a page from Harry Potter for $750k, Mayweather responded by offering 50 Cent $1,000,000 to post a video of his son saying “I love you”

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mxZBE TIL there is an island called Disappointment Island. It's uninhabited, but home to over 65,000 pairs of white-capped albatross. In 1868, a steel tanker crashed there and 68 people died, while the remaining 15 waited 18 months to be rescued. In 1907, another ship crashed there and 12 men drowned.
OGe61 TIL the average Saudi makes over 42 times the income of the average Yemeni - the biggest income difference between neighbors in the world (almost double the difference between South and North Korea).
KOyNB TIL that when Magic: The Gathering first started, there were several Demon cards, but due to fears of a moral panic like with D&D, in 1995 they stopped printing Demon cards, and any demonic-looking creature was now called "Horror". They eventually brought Demons back in 2002.
epnpb TIL Rodney King died in 2012. He was found underwater at the bottom of his swimming pool. He died 28 years to the day after his father, Ronald King, was found dead in his bathtub in 1984.
OoOgL TIL in Japan there's a tea made to taste like the sweat of an anime girl