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TIL Tony Danza was Tupac’s Prison Pen Pal.

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Oo6Q4 TIL Of Jeanne De Clisson, a 14th century Pirate Queen who took to the seas out to get revenge on the French king for executing her husband. She sold her estates and raised an army, raiding French ships with no mercy. She had 3 ships; they were painted black and their sails were red.
wL7jo TIL a song called FIVE MINUTES which begins with the recording made of then-US-President Ronald Reagan's "We begin bombing in five minutes" joke speech, which is then sampled and looped throughout the remainder of the track.
wooWP TIL Stephen Gough, "Naked Rambler", walked the length of the UK naked. He attempted to do it again in 2005 and 2006 but was arrested, and has spent much of the intervening years in prison, having been repeatedly arrested for public nudity.
LJmm TIL that the highest paid state employee in the USA is Nick Saban, the Alabama football team head coach, making $7.09 million a year
jNnOE TIL of the Da Silva family from Brasilia, whose members have 6 functional digits in each hand.