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TIL: History Channal Pawnstars is Fake.

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wLYJ6 TIL In 2010, the Forest Service made Betty White an honorary forest ranger. White said in previous interviews that she wanted to be a forest ranger as a little girl but that women were not allowed to do that then. When White received the honor, more than 1/3 of Forest Service employees were women.
W7XRL TIL that at one point, in 2020, the world's last Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon hosted 90s-themed sleepovers via Airbnb
0dg7R TIL: Kodak's "Shirley Cards" was used as a standard for skin tone in photography.
p85wG TIL Fake five-star reviews are bought and sold online in the UK. These fake reviews are estimated to influence £23 billion of UK customer spending every year.
N7R18 TIL about a tattooed biker gang called Rescue Ink, who travel around rescuing neglected and abused animals and taking them to no-kill shelters/rehabilitation centres.