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TIL an opposing witness in the Tipper Gore-instigated Senate hearing about so-called “porn rock”, Frank Zappa was asked how something as trivial as record-rating became the subject of a Senate inquiry. Zappa remarked, “A couple of blow-jobs here and there and Bingo! - you get a hearing.”

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8aLxL TIL 1996 U.S. Cables have detailed how the Saudi Royal Family members received stipends up to $200,000-$270,000 a month, and when a US embassy economics officer visited the office responsible for the distribution, he described it as a place “bustling with servants picking up cash for their masters.”
epA4E TIL that the UN peacekeeper forces are primarily composed of soldiers from poor countries as the UN pays governments 1410$/month(as of 2018) for each soldier. UN also doesn't give salaries, pensions or any benefits for soldiers so governments use part of this 1410$ for paying them
xV070 TIL that Carlotta J. Thompkins, also known as Lottie Deno, was in the late 1800s Texas' most famous poker player. Later in life she and her husband became upstanding citizens in Deming, New Mexico, where her husband became a bank vice president and she helped found St. Luke's Episcopal Church.
08K1 TIL a man was cleared of murder charges after outtake footage shot for Curb Your Enthusiasm showed him attending a Los Angeles Dodgers baseball game some 20 miles from the crime scene at the time of the murder
Wkea9 TIL the reason police tap on taillights or run their fingers along the side of a car during a traffic stop is because it left DNA evidence used to identify the vehicle afterwards without pictures or video. Now all patrol cars have cameras but it still occurs since it was part of training for decades