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TIL Martin Shkreli tried to auction off the chance to punch him in the face.

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RNk7 TIL the original ending of “Romeo Must Die” had Jet Li kissing Aaliyah but was re-filmed to where they shared a “tight hug” because, “Mainstream America, for the most part, gets uncomfortable with seeing an Asian man portrayed in a sexual light.”
X4pj TIL Dr. Dre thought Eminem was black until he flew him to Los Angeles to meet him.
oL47 TIL in 2016, inspired by an ancient toy called a whirligig, Manu Prakash developed the Paperfuge. The hand-powered centrifuge made of paper, string, and plastic weighs about 2 grams, costs less than a quarter to make, and can spin biological samples in circles at an astonishing 125,000 rpm.
N7OZ6 TIL that despite being the only predominantly Catholic nation in Asia, President McKinley, unaware said that American occupation of the Philippines was necessary to "uplift and Christianize" the Filipinos.
WljL TIL that Americans use and discard 500 million straws a day, an amount that would fill 125 school buses.