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TIL 50 Cent once challenged Floyd Mayweather to read one page of a Harry Potter book

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KOaDB TIL that those bibles that you find in the bedside table's drawer in hotels are actually placed in there by a group called Gideons International and usually not by the hotel itself.
nrdB TIL A budgie named Puck is listed in the Guinness World Book of Records as “The bird with the largest vocabulary in the world ” with a vocabulary of 1728 words. Also he wouldn’t just mimic, he would often create his own phrases and sentences.
mx0nY TIL Bobby Fischer, one of the greatest chess players of all time was issued a warrant for his arrest by the United States for playing a chess match which would ultimately be his final competitive match.
xGjD TIL the longest pregnancy on record lasted over a year and produced a perfectly healthy baby girl.
VnK8 TIL the only coup in the history of the United States took place in North Carolina in 1898. The plotters kidnapped the mayor of Wilmington and installed their own mayor.