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TIL the FBI recruited a Mafia enforcer to use “illegal interrogation techniques” on KKK members to find the bodies of three missing civil rights workers. It worked.

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dm97 TIL that Robert Downey Jr. once rescued an elder woman by using his jacket to tie around her wound and ordering people to call an ambulance. The woman’s granddaughter thanks him fifteen years later.
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8glP TIL that the same lawyer who worked with Grumpy Cat also represents the intellectual property rights of Mike Tyson’s face tattoo
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