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TIL Pimps wear expensive jewelry so that if they get arrested their girls can pawn it for bail.

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rA7x TIL In a scene of Hook(1991), there is a couple kissing on a bridge while Tinkerbell is flying over, dropping fairy dust on them and sending them flying. The couple was actually an uncredited cameo by George Lucas, and Carrie Fisher.
gAnL TIL musician Bruce Welch loaned Paul McCartney his apartment and so became the first person to hear “Yesterday.” McCartney had written the lyrics in the car on the way there.
GA5Jj TIL that during World War II, a pigeon named G.I. Joe saved over 1,000 lives by delivering a message to cancel a bombing mission just in time, as Allied troops had already captured the target.
nWvLr TIL a standard matchbox containing neutron-star material would weigh 3 trillion kilograms, the same weight as a 0.5 cubic kilometer chunk of the earth.
Yp8Nx TIL Pluto was discovered in 1930. It takes around 248 years to complete one orbit around the sun. Since its discovery it still has not even made one complete orbit.