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mdwx TIL That Jordan Belfort’s (the Wolf of Wall Street) Private Investigator played himself in the 2013 film
XXnP TIL That the Pine Ridge Indian reservation has the lowest life expectancy in the USA, and the second lowest in the Western Hemisphere, second only to Haiti.
GY1bj TIL There was a speech drafted in case the Apollo 11 astronauts were stranded on the moon. “For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind.”
kJj1E TIL in 1990 a truck driver jumped into a moat in an enclosure at the Detroit Zoo to save a chimpanzee from drowning when the chimp inexplicably jumped into the water. He said "Everyone in the whole place was just standing around watching this monkey drown", so he knew he had to do somethng about it.
5Xon TIL in Surfers Paradise, Australia, there is an association of bikini-clad meter maids who will top off your parking meter to prevent you from getting a parking ticket!