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TIL that when Marilyn Monroe returned from entertaining the troops in Korea, she told then-husband Joe Dimaggio “Joe! Joe! You’ve never heard such cheers” To which he responded “Yes I have”

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n04o TIL After pleading guilty to tax evasion in 1979, musician, Chuck Berry, was sentenced to 4 months of prison followed by 1000 hours of charity concerts. That’s why he was still touring as late as age 84
7oPb TIL in negotiations to sell, one of Reddit’s founders “determined to be a hard-negotiating 22-year-old, told Conde Nast that it couldn’t buy Reddit unless the founders each got $1 million.” He later said “A million dollars isn’t as much as I thought it was.”
Anra TIL For every meth lab bust in Nevada, there are nearly 1500 in Indiana
w766 TIL In 1896 in Texas, a railroad agent organized a head-on collision between 2 locomotives as part of a publicity stunt for his railroad company and got 40K people to show up. Unexpectedly, the crash caused both engine boilers to explode, killing 3 people and injuring scores of others.
g9xy TIL that Canada has no national rule on sewage treatment, and dumps a staggering amount of human excrement, toxins and pharmaceuticals directly into rivers and the ocean