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TIL that Cinco de Mayo is a bigger deal in the US then it is in Mexico.

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Z8ynD TIL that a man working at Kmart in the 80s and 90s saved a collection of cassette tapes that were sent from Kmart's corporate office to be played over the in-store speaker system while people shopped. He later digitized the tapes and uploaded them online where they can be heard today.
oogE TIL that Mafia capo Gregory Scarpa was recruited by the FBI to find information on the murders of 3 civil rights activists by the KKK using extrajudicial methods. He attained the location of the bodies by pistol whipping a Klansman and putting a gun in his mouth.
mm1o TIL that Judge Judy makes more money than any celebrity other than Lebron James with $123,000 a day, which amounts to $45 million a year.
8VPb TIL the family of a deceased man in Winter Haven, Florida claimed the cause of his death was an upper-cut from Batman in his newspaper obituary notice.
nWdr TIL Tim Burton’s new film is a remake of his movie from 1984 that originally got him fired from Disney.