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Snoop Dogg and Cameron Diaz went to high school together and Snoop was Cameron’s weed dealer.

There is a species of Australian beetle which is threatened with extinction because the male beetles try to have sex with beer bottles instead of females.

Steven Spielberg wanted to direct a James Bond film, but he was turned down by the franchise’s owners. When he told his friend George Lucas, Lucas said he had a film “just like James Bond but even better.” It was a story about an archaeologist named Indiana.

Because of the amount of granite in its construction, Grand Central Station produces more radiation than is allowable at a nuclear power plant.

Radithor, a health drink in the 1920s that contained radium and slowly killed its customers. But it didn’t cause a public health crisis because it could only be afforded by rich people (unlike cheaper, safer knockoffs).

US Marine John Kelly was the last person to be awarded 2 Medals of Honor. He ran 100 yards in advance of the front line and attacked an enemy machine gun nest, killed the gunner with a grenade, shot another man with his pistol, and returned with 8 prisoners. He was 19.

In 1978 Pilot Frederick Valentich and his plane disappeared during a UFO encounter. His last communication was “Melbourne that strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again… (two seconds open microphone)… it is hovering and it’s not an aircraft…”

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police brutality and gentrification mean Black Lives Matter plays a big role in Bay Area rap culture. G-Eazy, E-40, Nef the Pharaoh and more explore these topics. NOISEY begins tonight 10p