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TIL: All of Tom Cruise's wives Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes were aged 33 when their marriages ended

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Egod TIL that in the United States, having child pornography often results in a harsher sentence than actually molesting a child would
8494 TIL Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, founding guitarist of Steely Dan and longtime member of the Doobie Brothers, researched aviation systems as a hobby in the 1980s. Today, he is a defense consultant that chairs a congressional advisory board on missile defense.
brbp TIL that as their senior prank, a group of 90 students walked (between two buildings) across the same street continuously for 15 minutes, using an underground tunnel that connected the two buildings. They continue long enough to cause a traffic jam, and the line of cars extended far down the road.
LkQ6r TIL of the Mondragon Corporation, a Basqué company of >70000 workers that operates as a worker's cooperative. It exists as a quasi socialist enterprise in a capitalist system.