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TIL Of the Italian-American Civil Rights League, a group with the stated goal of combatimg negative stereotypes, was actually a PR group run by the Mafia to improve their image. They even negotiated to change the script of "The Godfather"

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Z8llp TIL When Washington became president, he scrapped the plans for "Washington monument" as he didn’t want to use public money for a personal memorial monument. Long after he died, In 1833 a small group of Washingtonians established a society to raise private funds for the project and got it built.
9lxr TIL Bacon accelerates hangover recovery
78Anb TIL about the El Cid Castle, an abandoned castle-like building in Phoenix, Arizona that was supposed to be a bowling alley but it took 20 years to complete and closed a year after it was opened after the owner was arrested for diversion of Medicare funds, that made him go bankrupt.
8eNXG TIL there's a farm in the middle of Japan's Narita Airport
0wZYM TIL: That the French Army has trained eagles from birth in order to take down drones.