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TIL a “Made Man” is a fully initiated member of the Mafia and must be Italian and sponsored by another Made Man. The ceremony involves pricking the trigger finger and bleeding onto a burning picture of a saint while reciting an oath.

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8aNXZ TIL within the first 5 years of the "Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk" campaign (begun in 1983), the U.S experienced its lowest number of alcohol-related fatalities since the DOT began keeping records, and more than 68% of Americans reported trying to prevent someone from driving after drinking
6EAQm TIL Crocodiles are the ultimate survivors. Having arisen some 200 million years ago, they have outlived the dinosaurs by some 65 million years. Even humans, the most fearsome predators ever to stalk the Earth, have failed to force into extinction any of the 23 species of crocodilians.
awdaJ TIL That there is a 2 km Tunnel in Mauritania Known as the "Monument to European Stupidity in Africa." It Exists Only Because Spain and France Couldn't Come to an Agreement Over a Railway Built Across Open Desert
eZ5b TIL that a New Zealand father was arrested and taken from his children for 8 months because people at a park mistook him kissing his daughter as indecent assault.
g7n4 TIL that there is a street made out of wood in Philadelphia