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TIL that despite occasionally smoking in movies Clint Eastwood is a lifetime non-smoker

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OgD6 TIL that renowned neo-Nazi skinhead activist “Nicky Crane” had been secretly working as an amateur gay porn star whilst still a neo-Nazi activist…
GD7E TIL that in 1925 con man Victor Lustig sold the Eiffel Tower to a scrap metal dealer
R7XQ9 TIL the average freight train is about 1 to 1¼ miles in length (90 to 120 rail cars). When it's moving at 55 miles an hour, it can take a mile or more to stop after the locomotive engineer fully applies the emergency brake.
JYr4V TIL there are at least 7,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke
vnVL TIL in 2000 a man looking for a barber chair at a garage sale purchased a two deteriorated boxes of items for $45. He later found the boxes contained 65 glass plate negatives from photographer Ansel Adams worth $200 million.