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TIL in 2012 law student Jonathan Nichols got a new cell phone, he didn't expect to get the number once used by Sir Mix-A-Lot. Since then he has been overloaded with pictures of women in bikinis.

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OobR7 TIL about the Q400 Horizon Air Incident of 2018, during which a member of the ground crew stole a plane and performed an unauthorized takeoff.
OAre TIL: During an interview, Louis CK once directly asked Donald Rumsfeld if he was a flesh eating lizard that fed on the poor. He even asked if he ate Mexican babies…
xvAb TIL-In an interview with David Letterman in 1983, Frank Zappa said that he approached NBC in 1968 with an idea for a show that would take people in politics/rock n’ roll/the arts and let them discuss news topics. 10 years later in 1993, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher hit the airwaves.
gW6W TIL that the initial probability of getting shot in the first round in Russian Roulette is not 1 in 6 , since the weight of the bullet makes the spinning cylinder more likely to stop with the bullet at the bottom.
XnP TIL: In 1986, Ronald Reagan signed an unfunded mandate (EMTAL Act) that requires emergency treatment for everyone, lack of health insurance notwithstanding, including undocumented immigrants.