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loDm1 TIL in 1929, researchers at Princeton University turned a living cat into a telephone.
D1xPV TIL 71% of 17-24-year-olds in the U.S. don't qualify for military service.
X0Am8 TIL in 1925, a forger convinced Portugal's money printer to make him 200,000 bills, worth ~1% of Portugal's GDP. They were easily laundered, since they weren't actually counterfeit. To cover his tracks, he started buying a controlling interest in the Bank of Portugal, but was caught. He was 28.
dDN0B TIL that David Koresh of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas got the idea for his name from one of his lovers, Lois Roden. She checked out a book from the Waco McLennan County Public Library in the 1980s on Cyrus Teed, an early 1900s cult leader from Southwest Florida who went by the name "Koresh".
8XgG TIL that AOL still has 2.4 Million paying monthly subscribers. They made AOL $196 Million last quarter which accounts for one third of their overall revenues.