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TIL John Gilpin, an amateur photographer, was testing his new camera lens at the airport and caught a 14 year old boy falling from the wheel well of Japan Air Lines DC-8

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o4pE TIL that a public defender, Travis Williams, tattoos the names of every defendant whose case he lost in court on his back. He is up to six.
JvK8 TIL that Chinese authorities have created the world’s first mobile phone walking lane for pedestrians addicted to texting.
R9ol TIL that when Bill Robinson, early film megastar and sidekick to Shirley Temple, was asked by a manager to leave a restaurant, he asked to borrow a $10 bill. When the manager agreed, he mixed it up with six $10 bills from his own wallet and said “Here, let’s see you pick out the colored one”.
aBp0 TIL of Francine Gottfried, a woman who was famous briefly in the 1960s because crowds of men would stare at and harass her on her way to work. The crowd peaked at 10,000 and required a police escort
QJx1L TIL Clyde Barrow of crime-duo Bonnie & Clyde was sentenced to a 14 year prison-sentence for auto theft in 1930. Two years into his sentence he decided to chop off two of his toes in order to get out of doing hard labor. Unbeknownst to him, he would be paroled six days later.