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m1VLY TIL In 1942 Punxatawney Phil (the Groundhog) did not make a prediction on the remaining length of winter but claimed to only see a partial shadow, adding that, “War clouds have blacked out parts of the shadow.”
wd77 TIL The man who accused Michael Jackson of molesting his son in a 1993 lawsuit claimed his son revealed he had been molested while under anesthesia during a dental procedure he (the father) was preforming. The son was later granted a permanent restraining order against his father.
nX17 TIL Tommy Chong, of Cheech and Chong, was cell mates with Jordan Belfort and encouraged him to write his autobiography “The Wolf of Wall Street”
R5l0j TIL that Pan Am were booking flights to the moon, between 1969 & 1971, they processed around 93,000 reservation tickets for free. They stopped taking reservations because of the admit costs but maintained well into the 1980's that the tickets would be honoured, if and when flights were possible.
rNVg4 TIL that in 1923, hyperinflation in Germany became so extreme that prices doubled every two days, eventually leading people to burn money because it was cheaper than buying firewood.