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TIL Screamin' Jay Hawkins had around 57-75 kids.

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QJ06e TIL: A member of Al Capone's gang promised federal agent Eliot Ness that $2000 (around $33,250 in today's money) would be on his desk every Monday if he turned a blind eye to their bootlegging. Ness refused the bribe and in later years struggled with money; he died almost broke at the age of 54.
jjLn TIL: 15% of snails survive after being eaten by birds
djv7 TIL after Officials in Richmond, California, learned that 70 percent of the city’s murders and firearms assaults were directly linked to 17 people, they decided to pay them to behave. With individual coaching, health care coverage and a monthly stipend, murders decreased from 62 to only 11 last year
9w6RG TIL that Hik-Connect app available in Apple App store is from a Chinese company that's currently sanctioned by the US government
M4Z8 TIL The Spindle, the iconic car sculpture seen at the beginning of Waynes World, was dismantled in 2008 to build a Walgreens