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TIL that porn star Aurora Snow is a full-time writer with a catalogue of articles on TheDailyBeast

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OoVNe TIL that the Maharaja(Indian King) of Jamnagar took in and agreed to look after 1000 orphaned Polish children — Jews and Catholics alike — who faced an uncertain future during World War II. The Maharaja told the children, “You may not have your parents, but I am your father now.”
WkYPL TIL Warranty void stickers have no legal standing in the US thanks to the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act
mxPRE TIL the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago had 193 murders in 1 year and only has a population of 26,000
wLQmP TIL that in an experiment that trained rats to drive tiny cars by giving treats as a reward, rats ended up loving driving so much they’d do it without a reward
KVo9 TIL during the Cold War, students at Stuyvesant High School built a particle accelerator in their school’s basement. However, when they powered it on, it “tanked the electrical system for the building and surrounding area.” > $10,000 were spent on the machine, but no one knows what happened to it.