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TIL Steven Seagal attempted to have a career as a Jamaican singer

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J1r78 TIL of Pre-Code Hollywood, a period between the invention of sound in films and creation of the MPA, which produced socially-progressive and anti-capitalist films in the 1920s before Republican & Catholic-led censorship
OERg TIL that 42-year-old Dmitry Agarkov, a Russian man, took a piece of spam mail for a pre-approved credit card, re-wrote the terms, sent it in, got it approved, and when the bank tried to renege on the deal, successfully sued for 700,000 USD.
AYY7 TIL until the 1700s, all geishas were men.
ad6L TIL A woman became the youngest Grandma at 23 years old. She had a daughter when she was 11 and a grandson 12 years later.
Wk4m4 TIL that all SI base units of measurement are written in lowercase, except for those named after people, Kelvin and Ampere