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TIL that Danny Trejo often chooses to play bad guys who lose to teach people that bad guys often die or go to prison, and that one should try to live a good life.

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9D4M TIL the age of consent in Chile is 14, but only for heterosexual sex. Homosexual activity is declared illegal with anyone under 18 years old.
ny09 TIL in 2008, as part of a float, Rick Astley “Rick Roll’d” the entire Macy’s Day Parade.
5Vew9 TIL that Titanic crewman Herbert Pitman made an attempt to row his lifeboat over to rescue people in the water, but was overruled by the other occupants of the boat, who were worried about people swarming them and duly complied. Pitman said that this haunted him throughout his life.
OO9g TIL Hawaii’s largest-ever earthquake occurred in 1868, and the aftershocks are STILL being observed.
ADn9o TIL that Henry George's treatise on economics "Progress and Poverty", which seeks to explain why poverty exists even within advanced and wealthy societies, sold over 3 million copies in the first 10 years after its publication, making it more popular than every book in the 1890s except for the Bible