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TIL that Jay Leno lives off all the money he made from standup. He put all his money from The Tonight Show into savings and charities

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8ep4 TIL that all Pakistani passports bear the inscription “This passport is valid for all countries of the World except Israel.”
nebko TIL The video for Welcome to The Jungle by Guns N'Roses was originally banned by MTV. It took the influence by David Geffen to get it aired for just one time at 4AM EST Sunday. The response was so overwhelming it shutdown MTV's switchboard.Appetite For Destruction went on to sell 30 million copies.
awyvy TIL San Francisco had a plague outbreak in the 1900s. Government officials repeatedly denied that it existed to ensure that no quarantine was put into place. When they acknowledged it existed, they blamed it on China. This resulted in the destruction of Chinatown.
VMd8p TIL a gang of brilliant French thieves used a vacuum cleaner to steal $800K from a bunch of grocery stores. The stores used a pneumatic tube system to convey their cash payments to their safes. They broke in and used the vacuum cleaner to suck the money out of the store vaults.
M7NN8 TIL that Japan’s Imperial line has Korean roots