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TIL Scottie from Mythbusters quit welding and became a dental hygenist

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pYd4Q TIL the Ampex corporation in the 1950s sold the first 8 track recorder machine to musician Les Paul (solid body electric guitar pioneer). It was installed in Paul's home studio in 1957 for $10,000 which was roughly three times the US average yearly income in 1957 and equivalent to $107,000 in 2023.
AD4N7 TIL after a Baptist church ran a newspaper ad calling beer "The Devil's Craft," a taproom began accepting it as a coupon for discounted beer
EReP TIL that North Korea did not return tens of thousands of South Korean POWs after the Korean War in 1953. They and their children were forced to work in coal mines for decades; 79 escaped from 1994 to 2009. Nine hundred US soldiers also may not have been returned.
D1gOe TIL Rapper G. Dep killed a man in 1993. Plagued by guilt, he tried to confess to the crime in 2010. The police did nothing. So two weeks later he went back to the station to confess again. The second time they matched his account to a cold case and charged him with murder.
xLQB TIL that a man in Alabama was convicted of “being drunk on a public highway” after police officers arrested him, drunk, at his home and took him onto the highway (conviction was later overturned)