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TIL that Stevie Knicks's current touring guitarist pleaded 'no contest' to child pornography charges in '98

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VJe0 TIL that school teacher Gail Wise was the first ever purchaser of a Ford Mustang, paying $3419 for it in 1964 and becoming “the coolest teacher in school that year”. She still owns the car & it’s done 68000 miles.
OyRL TIL that up to 1,500 baby raccoons were imported to Japan per year as pets during the 70’s due to the anime “Rascal Raccoon"s popularity. The descendants have multiplied after being released following a similar scene in the show. The population is now in the 200,000s and is a major destructive pest.
NX79M TIL Precursors to chewing gum date back 5,000 years with the first commercial chewing gum released in 1848. To sweeten these early gums chewers would repeatedly dip the gum in a plate of powdered sugar to reconstitute the sweetness while they chewed.
d8exQ TIL 1 to 2.4 hours of jogging per week is associated with the lowest levels of mortality, whereas running faster than 7mph & more than 4 hours a week yields a mortality rate not statistically different from that of being sedentary.
l7nd5 TIL that plasma is the 4th state of matter,and that it is the most common state of matter,making 99% of the whole known universe.