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TIL That ‘Petty Theft’ is commonly spelled ‘Petit Theft’

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MexQ7 TIL Marilyn Monroe never intentionally posed for the first issue of Playboy. Hefner paid $500 to a Chicago calendar company for the photos which were taken 4 years earlier. Marilyn was paid $50 for the initial shoot and had to buy a copy of the magazine herself to see the photos.
vjQL TIL there’s a experimental project in Stockholm, Sweden where you can sign up to recieve a SMS if there is a cardiac arrest nearby (500 m), so you can get there before the ambulance and perform CPR. 9500 people have signed up, and they reach the location faster in 54% of the cases.
OoJV4 TIL that in August 1966, a few months after John Lennon claimed that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus," a radio station in Texas, USA had a "Beatles bonfire" and burned thousands of Beatles records in front of a crowd. The next day, the station's transmitter tower was struck by lightning.
OopRY TIL Last year a bar-tailed godwit was tracked flying for 239 hours non-stop, covering 8100 miles from Alaska to New South Wales
NXekM TIL there are many medications that have negative interactions with grapefruit. It can either increase or decrease the volume of medication, effecting the bioavailability.