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TIL infamous NYC mobster/hitman Bugsy Siegal offered to kill Nazi leaders Herman Goring and Joseph Goebbels in 1938, only relenting because of a mistresses’ pleas

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45Bo TIL that President Lincoln essentially bribed Congress to outlaw slavery by offering lame-duck congressmen cushy government jobs in a then-legal form of corruption known as the patronage system
v1Roj TIL After Col. Shaw died in battle, Confederates buried him in a mass grave as an insult for leading black soldiers. Union troops tried to recover his body, but his father sent a letter saying "We would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers."
OZv4 TIL that in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, originally the knights were going to ride real horses, but after it became clear that the film’s small budget would cover horses, they had them bang coconuts together instead to simulate hooves clattering.
N7gL6 Researchers in Sweden have uncovered evidence of a behaviour never seen before in ancient hunter-gatherers: the mounting of decapitated heads onto stakes. The grim discovery challenges our understanding of European Mesolithic culture and how these early humans handled their dead.
VMEWp TIL Car dealerships are always next to each other because, even though it increases competition, it creates a "destination" for car buyers, increasing traffic for all of them. It's called an "Auto Row."