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TIL Nicolas Cage was arrested in 2011 for public intoxication, and was bailed out by a fan who was a bail bondsman. That bail bondsman was non other than Dog The Bounty Hunter.

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VBoY8 TIL about long-term nuclear waste warning messages, designed to warn civilizations ~10,000+ years in the future of the dangers of nuclear waste sites. Proposed solutions include an atomic priesthood to perpetuate rituals and myths, and cats genetically modified to change color when irradiated.
v1Nr TIL African Americans comprise 14% of the US population but account for 44% of all new HIV infections.
l1j5 TIL that before 9/11 the U.S. Government outlined the three most likely catastrophic events to hit the United States: a terrorist attack in New York City, a hurricane strike on New Orleans, and an earthquake in San Francisco.
699pw TIL that the northernmost point of land on earth is a small island off the coast of Greenland, 83-42, named after its latitude of 83 degrees 42 minutes north, but its official recognition is still pending due to its very small size.
grEo4 TIL "One nation, under God" isn't a centuries-old relic, rather it was added as recently as in 1954.