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TIL that boxing promoter Don King served prison time for stomping one of his employees to death.

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97WD TIL That a US professor proposed the idea that a president’s nuclear launch codes should be kept in a capsule surgically implanted in the chest of an assistant. Extracting the codes would require him to hack open the assistant’s chest and be responsible for one life before killing millions more.
O4L4 TIL That the highest fighter ace during the Battle of Britain was so ill-disciplined that he was seen as a danger to his colleagues, so he flew a ‘spare’ aircraft and flew his own patrols crediting 17 kills within a month. He was then killed in a crash while attempting to impress his girlfriend.
rR5ed TIL that Pablo Escobar was making $2,500,000 an hour during the late 80’s and early 90’s. He made so much money that he would buy commercial airliners, fill them with cocaine and once they landed, abandon the plane and buy a new one for the next shipment.
Brnae TIL after Buddy Holly died at 22, he left enough music recorded that his record label could release new material from him for the next 10 years.
grd64 TIL About Fat Men's Clubs, Where Status Seeking Members had to be at least 200 pounds, pay a $1 fee to enter and learn a secret handshake and password