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TIL Mötley Crüe’s manager was caught smuggling 40,000 pounds of marijuana and only served a five year suspended prison term and a $15,000 fine.

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D8lP TIL a group of architecture students is working to bring a home that costs just $20,000 to market. Their goal: create a house “anyone could afford … and anybody would want.”
rRl84 TIL that the "Wednesday Demonstration" in Korea is the world's oldest rally on a single theme. Every Wednesday since 1992, former victims of Imperial Japan's large scale sexual slavery system has been organizing a rally in front of the Japanese embassy, requesting a sincere apology from Japan.
vPEDr TIL About Gilmore the Flying Lion, who logged 25,000 hours of flight time before retiring.
X0AgQ TIL Unlike most of his astronaut colleagues, Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert was single and had the reputation of being a playboy who liked to party
9Y0v6 TIL US general, Douglas MacArthur, had two of the worst military disasters in American history happen under his command: the largest surrender of US forces (Battle of Bataan, WWII) and the longest retreat of US forces (The retreat back to the 38th parallel during the Korean War)