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TIL in South Korea, spinning “barber poles” outside an establishment signify a brothel not a barbershop

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6Evrm TIL Bob Dylan never visited Elvis because he wanted to uphold the image of "the powerful mystical Elvis that had crash-landed from a burning star onto American soil. After Elvis died he didn't speak to anyone for a week.
08eN TIL The Ringer includes about 150 disabled athletes and actors — the largest population of intellectual disabled people ever portrayed in a movie
VMvJm TIL the only full copy of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series (featuring Bill Mazeroski's famous walk-off home run) is from a recording on Bing Crosby's TV. Crosby co-owned the Pittsburgh Pirates and believed he was a jinx, so he hired a company to record the game on his TV while he listened from Paris.
b0R9 TIL….British accents noticeable change within the UK every 25 miles
9Ykkm TIL of the horrific murder of Junko Furuta, whose case details were so morbid, they caused court spectators to faint when read aloud.