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TIL That Bill Murray calls Kelly Lynch’s husband every time the Road House sex scene is on and tells him he’s watching Swayze bone his wife.

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0wj8M TIL That silver miners in the 1800s would discard their old work jeans in the mines. These jeans now can be sold for prices over $30,000, Levis going for the most! Many people have started hobbies going into the silver mines in hopes of finding them.
oRPMW TIL that an attempt was made to blackmail The Duke Of Wellington, by threatening to reveal his love affair with a prostitute in a book. Wellington just told them to go ahead and publish it.
kbNg TIL only two percent of the fissile material in Little Boy, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, actually detonated. In other words, seven-tenths of a gram of Uranium-235 leveled a two-mile radius of the city.
9w0ZD TIL in 1874, the Freedman’s Savings Bank, created to help African Americans build wealth, collapsed due to mismanagement and fraud. Over 60,000 Black Americans lost about $3M in savings, devastating trust in financial institutions and crippling Black economic progress many decades.
DQoLD TIL in the 15th and 16th centuries, the average person in France ate between 1.5 and 2.5 pounds of bread each day. While bread made up most of the poor's diet, the rich also enjoyed meat and an additional two liters of wine per day.