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TIL Vanilla Ice was the 6th best jetskier in the world and was so good he was sponsored by Kawasaki

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RJm1 TIL that in 1953 Iranian coup the US and UK put a General in charge that had once tried to build a pro Nazi government in Iran and had been arrested as such. He replaced a democratically elected government.
6E1ZW TIL California takes Jury Duty seriously (up to $1500 or jail time)
jowv TIL That in Israel there is a prison that was secret from the world and Israel itself and was only discovered in 2003. It is believed to still exist today.
b6BX7 TIL that brain stimulation using a device that can be built for $20 accelerates learning through a process called transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS).
WdwA TIL that a sandwich has ~16x the energy density of a Lithium-Ion battery.