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TIL JNCO Jeans still exist and retail for $300

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7815b TIL that in the 1940s Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar drove 200 miles round trip each week to teach a class in the Uni of Chicago. One day he insisted on driving to teach the class despite a heavy snowstorm. He ended up teaching a class of only two that day, both of whom went on to win a Nobel Prize.
lowLr TIL An orchid hunter & companion were taken hostage by guerrillas in Colombia. After 9 months of being held, they were told they’d be killed, so on his final day he designed a dream garden. But he was released, got home & built the garden, & won awards for it
ZRDp TIL: S. Curtis “Curt” Johnson was convicted of with repeatedly sexually assaulting his step-daughter was given a 4 month prison sentence, a fine of $6,000 and did not have to join the sex offender’s register. S. C. Johnson: A Family company.
P1eAw TIL that the Beach Boys' song "Never Learn Not to Love" started as a demo written for the band by Charles Manson titled "Cease To Exist". Manson was not credited as a songwriter due to the fact that he "exchanged his official writing credit for a sum of cash and a motorcycle".
ANXJB TIL that there was an urban legend about a Japan baseball team that had 18-year losing streak because in the 80's they threw the statue of Colonel Sanders into the river.