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TIL Pimps often wear large amounts of gold jewelry purchased from pawn shops because if they get arrested, cash is usually seized, but jewelry can be pawned again to raise bail money.

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1aX7d TIL that many inventions credited to Thomas Edison were in fact stolen from other inventors. Edison ruthlessly patented inventions from other inventors so he could claim them as his own work.
0w6PN TIL that during the Great Depression of the 1930s, women turned their flour sacks into into dresses, underwear, towels, curtains, quilts, and other household necessities. So flour companies started packing their flour in bags with pretty patterns.
mxdJx TIL that Alice Huyler Ramsey was the first woman to drive coast-to-coast across the USA in 1909. The 22-year-old housewife and mother completed the 3,800-mile journey from New York to San Francisco in a green Maxwell 30. The 59-day trek took 3-weeks longer than planned & 96% of the route was unpaved
PYBxO TIL the song "November Rain" was left off of Guns N' Roses major breakthrough album "Appetite for Destruction" at the last minute, as "Sweet Child of Mine" was thought to be enough of a ballad for one album.
BmGb TIL That we kiss under the mistletoe to honour Balder, the Norse God, and brother of Thor.