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TIL the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville turned a profit of only $57

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gZgy TIL Duane “Dog” Chapman was convicted of murder and served as the warden’s barber (also why you’ll never see him with a firearm).
GNgG [TIL] Crimea was one of the first carriers of the black plague back in 1346.
pYrGA TIL wasps can be trained to detect bombs.
mknx TIL: The “&” used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet. It got its name from children slurring the ending of the alphabet song together so “and per se and” became “ampersand”
m1a9v TIL the original Machine Gun Kelly was a gangster and bootlegger in the 1920's. His most famous crime was kidnapping oil tycoon Charles F. Urschel, whom he and his gang exchanged for nearly $5 million ransom in today's money.