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TIL former porn star “Tyffany Million” retired from porn to become a licensed private investigator and bounty hunter

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OGxb4 TIL that a Japanese pilot - Nobuo Fujita bombed the US mainland during WWII (the only foreign pilot to bomb the US Mainland) and was later invited back to where he gave his family's 400-year-old katana to the city in friendship.
4XxBR TIL disposable diapers are the third largest individual constituent of municipal solid waste and need at least 500 years to decompose.
KYw89 TIL about 11 year old Herman Lehmann, the son of German immigrants, who was captured by the Apaches in central Texas and lived with them for 6 years. He later went on to kill an Apache medicine man to avenge the death of his chief and master and took asylum with the Comanches.
X044X TIL Honey has been shown to recover hopeless behavior in mice that have undergone restraint stress for 21 days
9YWXr TIL We don't get all of our drinking water from the ocean because it costs $1-2 dollars per cubic meter (264 gallons) to desalinate ocean water, while only costing 10-20 cents to purify fresh water.