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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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N7gDe TIL Adélie penguins have been observed to engage in necrophilia, as young males often cannot tell the difference between compliant and dead females. This was first observed in 1912 but was deemed too shocking, and so was only rediscovered in 2012.
D1ALj TIL that the hottest thing in the known universe is actually on Earth: the Large Hadron Collider can reach temperatures of 4 trillion Kelvin.
6E5NY TIL In 1982, a lady by the name of Deborah Mathers sued Dort Elementary School because her 9-year-old son Marshall was bullied and beaten so severely that he suffered several injuries, including a cerebral concussion, repetitive loss of vision and hearing, and other such ailments.
V1Jp TIL that The City of London is surrounded by the “Ring of Steel” - described as a “surveillance cordon” with almost half a million surveillance cameras. The roads entering the City are narrowed to force drivers to slow down and be recorded by the cameras.
XEPeR TIL, Hitler's brother worked in a hotel in Dublin and the company that did the laundry service was called swaztika laundry, he also had a child with a Dublin woman and the child was called William paddy Hitler