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TIL When Mark Cuban was fined $15k for charity for saying the F word at a LoL match, he responded "F*ck it", effectively doubling the fine.

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XlR8 TIL: That Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who died at the age of 101 in 2002, had an older sister, Violet, who sadly died at the age of eleven, eight years before the Queen Mother’s own birth. Which means that one sister died in the 19th century while the other died in the 21st century.
jL1R TIL that 500 euro notes are often called “bin Ladens”, because everyone knows what they look like, but they are really hard to find
w6QW TIL the dark history of bananas. In an effort to preserve “United Fruit Company’s” monopoly on bananas, the U.S. Government removed the democratically elected president of Guatemala in secret by faking a radio station that reported a fake military invasion of Guatemala.
KmwQ TIL a 12-year-old Ethiopian girl was snatched by four men on her way home from school. A week later, three lions encountered the group and chased the men off. The lions stayed with the girl without harming her, before departing as police searching for her came near
X4ME TIL Listening to music while working out measurably improves physical performance.