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TIL DMX’s current net worth is negative ten million dollars.

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d8bpE TIL that actress Jan Stirling had airfare to fly to the US but found lingerie she liked, used the last of her money to buy it, trading in the airfare for a ticket on a steamship. Midway thru the voyage she learned that the airship she had been booked on, the Hindenburg, had been destroyed in a fire.
7rAML TIL Bob Barker actually did his own stunts for Happy Gilmore, including the famous fight scene. Not only did he refuse to do the movie until he found out he won the fight, but he also studied Tang Soo Do karate under Chuck Norris for 8 years.
46mb TIL the head of South Korea’s biggest plastic surgery clinic does over 100 operations daily - ranging from eyelid surgery to nose reshaping to facial contouring - because “The Chinese and Korean patients tell me that they want to have faces like Americans.”
jOmR TIL a group of panda is called an Embarrassment.
a8vNL TIL that Carlo Urbani, an Italian Microbiologist, was the first to identify SARS-COV-1 in Vietnam and report it to the WHO as a dangerous new pathogen. Urbani himself died of SARS himself shortly after, having triggered a rapid response to a potential pandemic, and saving many lives.