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TIL Pablo Escobar spent $2500 per month on rubber bands to hold stacks of bills together

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GAMr7 TIL when Quentin Tarantino found out that Video Archives in Hermosa Beach, California (the video rental store he had worked at) was closing, he bought the entire "inventory and recreated the store in his basement", because for him, "that place [was] a lifesaver."
Lbem TIL: A 14 year old girl in the UK was accused of racism by her teacher, and was arrested. She was participating in a group project and her group consisted of several Asian students of whom only one spoke English. She simply wanted to be in a group that spoke English.
ZkGG TIL it is common in china for drivers who have accidentally hit pedestrians to drive over them again to kill them, because they pay less restitution that way.
Y7PjZ TIL Radio stations refused to play Cher's first single because they thought her low voice was a gay man singing a love song about the Beatles' Ringo Starr
R5MDa TIL that before the invention and introduction of toilet paper to the US dried corn cobs we're one of the preferred methods of wiping after using the bathroom.