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TIL A Chicago Woman named Jeanette Taylor was approved for affordable housing 29 years after applying

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Z8jeQ TIL Philadelphia mobster John Veasey was shot in the head three times at point blank range by trusted business associates and survived. After he was shot he walked out of the room and went straight to the FBI where he became a government witness.
b9b67 TIL the word potassium is derived frm 'potash.' This preindustrial way to produce water-soluble possasium was by burning plant matter then soaking the ashes with water in a pot.
16OnD TIL Michael Bay worked for Lucasfilm as a teen. When he filed the storyboards for Raiders of the Lost Ark, he thought it would be terrible. His opinion changed when he saw the final product, and it set him on his path to become a filmmaker.
X6YQ TIL in 2005, a man received a penis transplant for the first time in history after his own was severed in an accident. Two weeks after the procedure took place, it had to be removed “because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife”
R5DAa TIL of Walter M. Gibson, a 19th century adventurer who was a gunrunner in the Caribbean and imprisoned in the East Indies for fomenting rebellion, but while awaiting execution, had a vision of creating an island empire and escaped -- then tried to create that empire as Prime Minister of Hawaii.