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TIL David Letterman was Blackmailed for $2 Million and Worked with Authorities to Catch the Perpetrator.

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6E4KY TIL if you try to steal the hood ornament from a Rolls Royce made after 2004, it will instantly retreat into the chassis of the car until the owner rights it. These hood ornaments, called "The Spirit of Ecstasy", cost roughly US $4000 to replace.
dmkr TIL that whenever Kevin Bacon is at a party he gives the DJ $20 NOT to play ‘Footloose.’ “People expect me to start doing flips like a trained monkey. I try to avoid that.”
78PBM TIL 42 was the last natural number below 100 whose representation as a sum of three cubes was found (in 2019). The representation is: (-80538738812075974)^3 + 80435758145817515^3 + 12602123297335631^3
mx9go TIL that your own voice seems lower to you because its mostly transmitted through skull, and bone conduction transmits low frequency sound better
9w6dG TIL the leading hypothesis for why zebras have stripes is because it helps prevent horse flies from biting them.