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TIL Pablo Escobar spent $2500 a month on rubber bands to hold stacks of bills together

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m1aYo TIL of Operation Plumbbob, where a nuclear bomb was detonated in a vertical tunnel with a 2,000lb (900kg) metal plate plugging the surface. The plate was launched into the air at 6 times Earth's escape velocity
xVxmk TIL in 1990, Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland were to be married - but Julia ran away to Europe with Kiefer's best friend. Humiliated, Kiefer took solace in steer roping. And despite breaking three fingers at his first rodeo he persevered to become a tournament-winning rider on the rodeo circuit.
b9mDQ TIL that pop-up ads were created by Ethan Zuckerman and he issued an apology for ever creating them in 2014.
OG6w6 TIL when Bruce Springsteen met Joey Ramone (of The Ramones), he was asked to write a song for The Ramones and originally wrote “Hungry Heart” for them. He then decided to keep it for himself based on the advice of his manager.
wLyvP TIL, Mark Hamill's first industry work was at age 22 as a voice actor in an animated spin-off of I Dream Of Jeannie which aired in late 1973.