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TIL that in 2002 Pamela Anderson contracted Hepatitis C by sharing tattoo needles with Tommy Lee and was told she would only have 10 years left to live. She was cured of the disease in 2015.

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6OVW TIL Eminem’s mom sued him for $10 million for defamation over lyrics in the song “My Name Is”. The case was settled out of court for $25,000, with her lawyers taking nearly $24,000 of that.
EoaP TIL that CAPTCHA is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”
JRK4 TIL the punishment for cross dressing in Saudi Arabia is a mandatory life sentence.
EyKW TIL in 2013, ex-Canadian Minister of National Defense Paul Hellyer claimed that “at least four species” of alien have been visiting Earth for “thousands of years”, and that “there are live ETs on Earth at this present time, and at least two of them are working with the United States government”.
m10gY TIL that In 2018, A hacker broke into people’s routers (100,000 of them) and patched their vulnerabilities up so that they couldn’t be abused by other hackers.