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

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Oo4Jg TIL, Kenny Loggins was one of many collaborators on the song "We Are The World" by USA for Africa, and that would lead to him to performing Footloose at the Philadelphia leg of the Live Aid famine relief concert event of the 1980s.
LQMdr TIL there was a man who worked as a barber for 96 years. Beginning at age 12 in 1923, he charged $0.25 for his first haircut and his final haircut, given in 2019 at the age of 108, was $19.
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