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TIL that a woman got her 20 boyfriends to buy her 20 iPhones, then sold them to buy a house

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oB9Br TIL in 1990, Danny Bonaduce was arrested for attempting to buy cocaine on his way to host a D.A.R.E. event.
8amrb TIL a male baboon in Australia being transported from a research facility to get a vasectomy escaped with 2 female baboons when their cage broke. The trio was captured after 2 hrs of freedom & the vasectomy was postponed. The females reportedly had been brought along to reduce the male's stress.
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