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TIL that all every Rolls Royce pinstripe is painted by a man who used to be an old English village sign painter. It's the last manufacturing step and can't afford mistakes as the paint instantly bonds with the car body and cannot be erased.

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Oo7VR TIL the waitlist for a liver transplant in california was going to take over a year, so steve jobs bought a house in tennessee, giving him access to their waitlist, which would only take four months. by doing this, he effectively cut in line on the national transplant list
J1an8 TIL Prostitution was the biggest source of employment for women in Helena, Montana in the 1870’s and 80’s. In 1886 there were 52 prostitutes working the city. The madams became so wealthy they bought up blocks of downtown property and even started their own mortgage company.
5YWEQ TIL the phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener is called Semantic Satiation.
b9DQZ TIL: Project Corona, one of the earliest reconnaissance satellites, sent film back to earth via recovery vehicles that would be caught in mid air by an Air Force C-119. The recovery vehicles were designed to sink in the ocean after two days should the plane fail to catch it.
d8n4j TIL of Osborne v Ohio, in which the United states supreme court ruled 6-3 that possession of child pornography can be banned. Justices William Brennan, John Paul Stevens, and Thurgood Marshall dissented, arguing that possession of child porn is a constitutional right.