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TIL: Before Deep Throat, Linda Lovelace starred in a bestiality film.

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dZX7 TIL that Fats Waller, jazz musician, was kidnapped by four armed men and forced to play the piano during a huge party ; he later realized he was playing for Al Capone’s birthday, who absolutely loved his music. Some say he played for three days, and went back home with a tip of thousands of dollar.
LDwP TIL the Soviets had made a prototype laser pistol for use by their astronauts. The pistol was deigned to burn a hole through the spacesuits of enemy astronauts, killing them via suffocation and/or explosive decompression.
4X9Ob TIL that the Pinky Swear stemmed from the Yakuza and implies that if you break something as holy as a pinky promise, you have to cut off your finger as punishment.
OkG1 TIL that a PayPal glitch in 2013 made a Pennsylvanian man become the worlds first trillionaire, and first quadrillionaire, with an account balance of $92,233,720,368,547,800.
VB0NQ TIL Haitian-American Joe Gaetjens, the sole goal-scorer in the upset victory over England in the 1950 World Cup, would later be kidnapped by Haitian dictator "Papa Doc" Duvalier's secret police. He was taken to a prison notorious for torture and never heard of again until confirmed dead in 1972.