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TIL Corona never paid to be in Fast and the Furious but received an estimated $15 million in free advertising.

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9DXX TIL that revolving doors were invented because of one man’s paralyzing fear of opening doors for women.

OGe9Y TIL Jack London, author "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang," had referred to his first wife as "mother-girl" and to his second wife as "mate-woman."

5a1p TIL in 1851, a runaway slave named Jerry was arrested in Syracuse NY during the anti-slavery Liberty Party’s convention. A crowd of hundreds of abolitionists broke into the city jail and freed Jerry, eventually smuggling him to Canada. Nine participants in the rescue also fled to avoid prosecution.

oEj7 TIL jazz pianist Ryo Fukui taught himself piano when he was 22 and released his first album just 6 years later

YKp7 TIL The hit song “House of the Rising Sun”, covered by The Animals, Bob Dylan, and others, was written in London in the 1700’s, and historians have no idea as to its origin, or who wrote it.