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TIL Porn actress Asia Carrera is a member of Mensa with an IQ of 156. An atheist, Carerra wore a colander for her driver’s license photograph. State law normally prohibits hats in such photos but she used an exception for religious headwear (the religion of the Flying Spaghetti Monster).

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ANZ8l TIL that the Titanic was not the first ship of it's production line. With the Titanics sister ship, the Olympic (which was only 3 inches shorter and 1000 tons lighter than the Titanic), having already served as a successful cruise liner for a whole year before the Titanics fateful maiden voyage.
9DM TIL the Mythbusters were going to do an episode about the hack and trackability of RFID chips, but had to can the idea when Visa, Discover, American Express, and others threatened to pull all their advertising from the whole of the Discovery Channel Network.
Browy TIL that Kaliningrad situated between Poland and Lithuania is the largest city and the administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia), Having its own Flag and a population of 475,056. Home to 9K720 Iskander (SRBM) and the Baltic fleet.
rNm6y TIL that the oldest known reference to crisps (potato chips) dates to 1817, when an Englishman named William Kitchiner included them in his book 'The Cook's Oracle'
epMy4 TIL that at the end of the movie A League of Their Own, Dottie is not being played by Geena Davis in age makeup. She's played by actress Lynn Cartwright, who looks strikingly similar to Geena Davis, with Davis's voice dubbed over for the scenes.