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TIL Al Capone’s armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect FDR after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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4LJ5 TIL that after filming the freeway scenes for The Matrix: Reloaded, the film makers, instead of disposing of the set, chose to donate it, in pieces, to charity in Mexico to be turned into low-cost housing.
epkek TIL there are 29% (or 12.8 percentage points) more male home gardeners (56.4%) in the US than there are female home gardeners (43.6%)
PYaWw TIL that Surveyors have found that the clock tower at the Palace of Westminster( BIG BEN ) has developed a tilt. Experts says even though the tilt is visible to the naked eye, at its current speed, it would take some 4,000 years to reach the angle of the Leaning Tower of PISA.
Z8WBG TIL When Bruce Lee was 17, he won a Boxing Tournament put on by 12 Hong Kong schools even though he had no formal training in boxing.