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TIL when Billie Holiday died, she had 70 cents in her bank account and $750 taped to her leg.

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MedGm TIL of Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist who assassinated President William McKinley on Sep. 6, 1901. He was executed seven weeks later by Edwin Davis, the first “state electrician” of New York.
6E9Rm TIL of the Muscadins, "mobs of young men, relatively well-off and dressed in a dandyish manner;" Parisian street fighters who suppressed the remnants of the Reign of Terror.
PnV TIL Truth serum is real and considered torture
nWmPd TIL the Choose Your Own Adventure books were invented by a single father and a lawyer named Edward Packard. He came up with the idea while telling bedtime stories to his kids
R0al TIL that, according to the Solomon Curve, drivers traveling 5 mph (8 km/h) above the average speed of traffic are statistically the least likely to be involved in a crash while crash risk increases dramatically when traveling below the average speed.