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TIL That Frank Hamer, the Texas Ranger who lead the posse that killed Bonnie and Clyde, was able to keep most of the weapons and ammunition found in the outlaw couple's car as the result of an agreement with the Texas DOC. The arsenal included several automatic weapons and sawed off shotguns.

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9wk67 TIL that Joe Jackson would hold a belt as the Jackson 5 rehearsed, ready to strike his children if they stepped out of line. Michael Jackson was terrified of his father. “I have thrown up in his presence because when he comes in the room and this aura comes and my stomach starts hurting."
6Em5Y TIL I learned that the boy with the spoon from matrix was credited "Spoon boy"
GYAZJ TIL in 2008 David Spade gave $100,000 to the Phoenix Police Department toward the purchase of rifles for patrol officers
XEjgX TIL of the Hybrid Assistive Limb, a commercially available exoskeleton suit
e0R86 TIL that when Bette Midler started her career in the early 1970s, she was the singer in a gay bathhouse in New York often accompanied by Barry Manilow on piano. Manilow produced her first album and that patrons of the bath house were her first hardcore fans.