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TIL Britain’s oldest prostitute is 85-years-old and still raking in £250 an hour

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4PwX TIL The nanoscale transistors found on modern microchips can be turned on and off at an unthinkable rate of over 100 billion times a second.
nZbW TIL of a homeless man in NYC who would regularly order an expensive dinner at a restaurant and refuse to pay for it in order to be sent to prison where he would receive 3 meals a day and a clean bed. He refused to commit more serious crimes to get longer sentences as he did not want to hurt anyone.
4vP6 TIL Cartman killed his own dad. Scott Tenorman’s dad, Jack Tenorman, was Eric Cartman’s real father.
woKRE TIL: Stevie Wonder was about to play at Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday concert when his synclavier hard disc went missing. He refused to play, so unknown Tracy Chapman hurried on stage to perform for a 2nd time that day. She sold 2 million albums and Fast Car went Top 10 worldwide after the concert.
PDLE TIL the Hollywood Walk of Fame star for Muhammad Ali is the only one that’s placed on a wall and not the ground, because Ali “did not want the name of Muhammad to be stepped on”