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TIL Marlon Brando was expelled from high school for driving a motorcycle in the hallways

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LkEpV TIL US Cell Carriers are (and/or were) selling REAL TIME location data without consent to 3rd parties including advertisers and even bounty hunters!
OGgD1 TIL Sherlock Holmes was inspired by a real physician the author had worked for. The inspiration, Dr. Joseph Bell, had excellent observation skills & would draw broad conclusions based upon them.
p8r5O TIL John O'Brien, who wrote the novel "Leaving Las Vegas," only wrote one other produced piece while he was alive, a 1992 episode of Rugrats.
XEwoQ TIL that the colors of the barber pole are red, white, and blue to represent the medieval role of barbers. The red represents the blood from bloodletting, the blue represents the vein that was cut, and the white represents the bandage. It spins to represents the blood flowing down.
dDXyQ TIL that anti ligature coat hooks exists and death by coat hanger is a big enough problem for this solution to exist.