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TIL That the lead singer of Judas Priest, Rob Halford, refers to himself as"the stately homo of heavy metal"

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b6lwa TIL screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men, The Social Network) takes six to eight showers a day to get over writer’s block. If writing isn’t going well, he takes a shower, puts on different clothes, and tries again.
d8O4d TIL that "Dumpster" is a genericized trademark, like Kleenex or Band-Aid.
negxW TIL about D. B. Cooper, a man who, in 1971, hijacked a plane, demanded a ransom of $200,000, got it, then parachuted out of the aircraft clutching the money somewhere over Washington state. The FBI investigation ended in 2016, but he has never been found.
Od96 TIL attacking a parachuter bailing from a distressed aircraft is a war crime
m17QP TIL that the 1988 Franklin child prostitution ring allegations accused powerful Nebraska figures of running a child sex trafficking network, and a key investigator died in a plane crash while returning from collecting evidence, before state grand juries later ruled the claims a “hoax”.