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TIL the average American pimp has three prostitutes in his service

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mx4GE TIL in 1960, soul singer Jesse Belvin played to Arkansas' first ever racially integrated audience. The performance was interrupted twice by white protesters. After the show, Belvin was killed in a head-on collision. It was discovered that his car tires had been slashed.
rl14 TIL Mr. Snuffleupagus’s first name is Aloysius. Aloysius Snuffleupagus.
VPdp TIL of Han van Meegeren, a painter who avoided execution in 1945 for selling Dutch cultural property to the Nazis by proving he’d forged it all after setting up his studio in court. He received just one year for fraud and was later hailed as a hero for duping Hermann Göring, amongst others.
4mrg TIL That the B-58 Hustler bomber did not have ejection seats, instead they had ejection capsules that would enclose the pilot into an egg-shaped capsule to allow a safer ejection at speeds up to Mach 2 and altitudes higher than 35,000 feet. Pilots with size 12 or higher shoes could lose their toes
WkdAN TIL Sabiha Gökçen, one of the 13 children adopted by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, became at the age of 23 the world's first female fighter pilot.