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TIL that there's a 78 year-old pharmacist, Bill Pagel, who collects Bob Dylan memorabilia. He owns 15,000 photos, 4,000 posters, and two houses that Bob Dylan lived in as a child.

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5eB TIL the youngest person to have been executed in the US was 14 years old. A bible was used to boost him up onto the electric chair, and his trial only lasted 2 and a half hours.
e0WnL TIL A fitness tracking app gave away the locations of secret US army bases. The company released 3 trillion GPS data points to help people find popular running routes in major cities, however it was detailed enough to give away sensitive information of users on active military service.
wGB8 TIL The bezel on a dive watch only rotates counterclockwise- The reason for this is so that if the bezel is bumped accidentally during a dive, it will only move one direction, subtracting time from the dive and prompting the diver to end his dive early.
d877d TIL Three Prime Ministers of Canada never sat in Parliament while they were Prime Minister, they are Kim Campbell, John Turner, and Sir Charles Tupper. Both Turner and Tupper were Prime Minister for less than 100 days.
NxmQ TIL Mattel made and sold Wonder Woman’s “invisible jet” as a collectible. The package was an empty plastic shell with nothing inside, and was originally intended as an April Fool’s joke. It now sells for several hundred dollars.