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TIL Al Capone was only 48 when he died, and most of his most infamous criminal activities happened in his 20s

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R7Y96 TIL of the Zong Massacre. In 1781, a British slave ship threw 130 chained African slaves overboard and claimed compensation under the ship's insurance. They falsely blamed the act on water shortage and lost their case.
ADG64 TIL that in 2018 the US Navy started replacing $38,000 submarine periscope joysticks with $30 Xbox 360 controllers
lP1N TIL Pitchfork Media deletes and changes reviews when it ends up on the wrong side of musical history
6p1w TIL a police commissioner who claimed he had spent hours researching sticky bombs distributed printouts about them. All of the information he gathered came from the Terraria Wiki.
dGrK TIL that in WWII nine American pilots crashed into a small island in Japan called Chichijima. 8 of the 9 were murdered, 5 of those 8 were cannibalized. The lone survivor was George H.W. Bush.