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TIL A Turkish physician was jailed for sharing a meme comparing the Turkish President to Gollum

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BreXk TIL Flo Rida, the rapper, is from Florida, the state. That's why he calls himself Flo Rida. But he hates being called Florida (like the state).
Z8xKp TIL that the only medically proven cure for hiccups that does not require drugs or surgery is "Digital Rectal Massage"
n0WG TIL that Jim Carrey wrote letters to Tupac Shakur when Tupac was in prison to help him laugh and smile.
6EMEX TIL that when Lumber Baron William E Boeing created the Boeing Airplane Company in 1917 the company depended on designs from their first aeronautical engineer hire, Chinese MIT grad Wong Tsu. He worked for a year with the company before returning to China. He fled to Taiwan when Mao took over China
gNxD TIL of the Asian brown cloud, a layer of air pollution that appears over South Asia and the Indian Ocean every year between January and March when there is no rain to wash pollutants from the air. Nearly two million people die each year, in India alone, from conditions related to the brown cloud.