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TIL John Mellancamp's former keyboardist was placed on the FBI's most wanted list and eventually caught for producing child pornography

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VadD TIL in 1953 that Austrian Inge Sargent married a Prince from Burma (Myanmar), but he didn’t tell her he was a Prince until they sailed back to Burma and were greeted at the docks by hundreds of well-wishers.
0451 TIL that since 2013, a YouTube view is counted as a sale of a song, in the sense that it is counted toward the certification of a song as Gold (500k copies), Platinum (1M copies), or Diamond (10M copies)
KvrG TIL a man tied 45 weather balloons to a lawn chair and packed a gun to shoot himself down. Instead of raising the planned 100 feet he shot up 16,000
v1M74 TIL that the reason why we clink our glasses and say cheers originated from the medieval ages, it was quite popular to poison your enemies drink. Therefore, men would clank their cups together hard and spill each other’s cups ensuring the man you were drinking with was not poisoning you.
Bjge TIL that when Lodewijk van den Ber designed an experiment for the Space Shuttle, NASA asked for a list of eight people who could fly in orbit to run it. Adding his own name to finish the list, to van den Ber’s amazement he became the first Dutch spaceman despite his age (53) and physical condition.