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TIL bail money isn't a payment, it's collateral. If you show up to court, you get the money back (or it goes towards court costs). If you skip your court date, you lose it.

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GAPdg TIL the 2nd heaviest person in recorded history (1,340lbs) was ordered by his government to undergo weight loss treatment. He lost over 700lbs in just 6 months, and currently weighs 150lbs.
GAo85 TIL of Mallows Bay, where over 200 wooden ships were abandoned and burned at the end of WWI. Now the shipwrecks are a thriving ecosystem and the site is a National Marine Sanctuary.
ZA7G TIL there is an island in Italy that is so haunted no one is allowed to go there. It is called Poveglia, a dump site for plague and black death victims & corpses, and later the site of an insane asylum.
G8kN TIL that Nelson Rockefeller, once Vice President of the United States, died at age 70 of a heart attack rumoured to be caused during sex with his 25 year old assistant. The New York Magazine quipped: “Nelson thought he was coming, but he was going”.
X0OaX TIL That the last Civil War pension was paid in 2020 to the daughter of a soldier who fought for both the Confederacy and Union.