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TIL Chumlee of Pawn Stars makes $2500/h or $100,000/wk from his own merchandise business. This is due to his popularity on the show, surpassing all other Pawn Stars cast income.

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JYZ8V TIL the young, unknown Afghan girl from the 1985 cover of National Geographic was located in 2002 and her identify was confirmed using iris recognition. She remembered being photographed in the mid-80s but had never seen the image of herself as a child before it was shown to her in January 2002.
wLWAM TIL how maglev trains work from a Professor in 1975. He shows how to overcome the flipping magnets problem and how to move the train along with magnetism.
jZQa TIL Siamese cats are partial Albinos. The gradual shading of the extremities is caused by a recessive gene with temperature-sensitive expression. As they age, the Spots can get darker the colder it is, but if keep in an evironment that is 98f or wamer they would stay pure white.
gMmd8 TIL In the 1970s the police discovered a couple who had kept their daughter imprisoned inside a locked room for 13 years. With no contact with the outside world, little stimulation, and very limited communication with her parents her brain wasn't capable of learning any language.
nXpB TIL the former Prime Minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, has been held in jail illegally for years and the former President that used to fight for democracy was poisoned.