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TIL that in 1964 Joe Bonanno plotted to assassinate the leaders of the American Mafia "Commission", the board of directors of organized crime. He would fail, and be stripped of leadership.

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lo0Kr TIL that Ancient Greek sculptures have such small peckers because, at the time, they were consonant with male beauty. Having a large johnson, on the other hand, was normally associated with being a fool or a barbarian.
5VgmD TIL on March 22nd, 1989, a sub-kilometer-sized asteroid called 581 Asclepius came within 500,000 miles of hitting the earth. The collision would have released energy comparable to a 600 megaton atomic bomb. The asteroid was discovered nine days after its closest approach to the Earth.
JJV8 TIL MI6 replaced bomb making instructions with cupcake recipes on al-Qaeda websites
Yp9rv TIL of U.S. Patent 3216423: Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force, which was intended to facilitate labour by spinning a pregnant mother. The designers believed that "civilised women... often do not have the opportunity to develop the muscles needed in confinement."
PGvJ TIL Artic Explorer Peter Freuchen was caught in a terrible blizzard and buried under a thick layer of snow and ice. When he couldn’t claw his way out, Freuchen whittled his own frozen feces into a knife and used it to chisel his way through.