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TIL Kevin Bacon founded an organization that re-homes rescued factory farm pigs.

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kGV4 TIL Japan had machines that can type thousands of different letters using just one key
Z8MED TIL there are only two countries in the world that tax their citizens on earnings while living abroad: the United States, and Eritrea
ebQJ TIL that the American gangster John Dillinger escaped from jail with a wooden pistol. After whittling it in his cell, in March 1934 he used the fake weapon to intimidate 33 people before getting a real machine gun. “Ha, ha, ha! And I did all this with a wooden gun!” he bragged while leaving.
eQn TIL 400k balls saved LA reservoir from being health hazard
JYrK8 TIL Alexandre Dumas was only one-fourth black, from his paternal grandmother. His other three grandparents were white.