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TIL that Jerry Springer was the Mayor of Cincinnati and had to resign in 1978 upon discovery he had written two personal checks to prostitutes

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4XkmN TIL preparations for Y2K computer bug costed world US$300 billion ($417 billion today)
JVOj TIL the Walt Disney company owned an island near Orlando that opened a theme park in 1974 called Treasure Island. The park was later renamed Discovery Island and mysteriously closed in 1999 without any explanation given.
R5R7Q TIL; That Peter Jackson director of Lord of the Rings - Built an entire movieset replica of Frodo baggins hobbit hole house "bag-end" underneath his new zealand mansion, and you get there via a secret wine cellar tunnel; Not only that, but Danny Divito also visits him regularly to hang out there.
ZpLkp TIL of the Porsche C88, which was a concept car that Porsche designed for mass production in China. It had a badge which reflected the one child policy at the time and had an inbuilt child seat for one child.
1a788 TIL: The oldest mummies in the world are turning into black slime. Over 100 Chinchorro mummies found near the Atacama Desert in Chile are turning gelatinous due to bacterial growth associated with increasing humidity. The mummies date to ~5000 BC