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TIL Murder, Inc. was a 1930s-1940s organized crime group responsible for an estimated 400-1,000 contract killings, serving as the enforcement arm for the National Crime Syndicate, until key members turned informants, leading to its eventual dismantling.

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dN0K TIL Charles Darwin wasn’t the first choice to go on the voyage in which he theorized the Theory of Evolution. He got the spot because other candidates turned down the captain’s invitation. Meanwhile, the captain just wanted a travel buddy because commanding a ship was very stressful and lonely.
PWjJ TIL - At its MOST liberal estimate, the entire Jewish population of the world is smaller than the acceptable statistical error when approximating the population of China.
M7bOB TIL that to protect trade secrets, the glassmakers guild in thirteenth-century Venice would imprison a glassmaker’s family if the glassmaker left the city, and if he still didn’t return they’d send an assassin to kill him.
GV5E TIL that Mumbai has an intricate food delivery system that picks up 200,000 hot lunches from wives or moms, delivers them to working men, then returns the containers home again same day.
GARo1 TIL Vladimir Pravik was one of the first firefighters to reach the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26th, 1986. The radiation was so strong that it changed his eye color from brown to blue. He died 15 days later.