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TIL Griselda Blanco aka The Black Widow was the first-ever billionaire female criminal, ruling her multi-billion dollar drug trafficking empire with an iron fist, and becoming one of the deadliest women of all time.

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LGeP TIL a Bill Ripken baseball card with the words “fuck face” written on the bat he’s holding went into circulation unnoticed.
oBvQo TIL When Alvin "tex" Johnston was told to "sell" Boeing's new 707 jet liner to a crowd of business men and reporters in 1955, he rolled the aircraft inverted in a 1 G maneuver called a barrel roll without the knowledge of the companies president.
OoBMa TIL big companies use price announcements as a way of coordinating prices with competitors to avoid antitrust regulations. Airline, shipping, chemical, pharamceutical and telecoms firms have all used price announcements as a way to ensure competitors maintain market prices.
D6XP TIL: The US Department of Defense pays the NFL for propaganda
9YmKX TIL that 1.6 million people are estimated to have attended Metallica's concert in Moscow in 1991.