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TIL New York’s Five Mafia Families received millions of dollars for contracts for the Ground Zero debris clean up and engaged in a variety of schemes from no show jobs for high level bosses to illegally dumping debris

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E1Nd TIL: A 34 year old virgin became a father of 82 after he legally prostituted himself to help make babies for women that wanted children.
X6jP TIL German writer Ernst Jünger ran away at the age of 18, served both WW1 and WW2, earned the iron cross, hung out with Picasso and Cocteau, hated the nazis and did lots of drugs until he died 102 years old.
bx0Z TIL in 1952, 1000 british men were ordered to strip to the waist and watch Britain’s first nuclear bomb test from a few miles away. Now, the few survivors and their children have severe health problems.
loONN TIL that Steve Irwin's father refused a state funeral for his son because in the words of his son, he was an "ordinary bloke".
kBRd TIL that the opening dialog in the Daft Punk song “Contact” is taken from real NASA recordings of the Apollo 17 mission.