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TIL about red-collar crime: when white collar criminals use violence to silence those investigating them

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16n67 TIL That Jimmy Fallon was in Band of Brothers. As I am currently rewatching band of Brothers after nearly a decade, I stumbled across a scene that had me shivering. At the end of episode 5, Jimmy Fallon appears as a courier that delivers material right before Easy Company enters Bastogne.
yQxx8 TIL, the Midnight Club was actually a underground street racing team in Tokyo
kOXW1 TIL 19th century England was swept by "Egyptomania", a renewed interest in Egypt's past. Rich Victorians would travel to Egypt and bring back ancient mummies with which they would hold "mummy unwrapping parties" for their friends.
ypVJ TIL: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey launched his tech career by writing open source software to route delivery trucks from the Internet
6EaQX TIL that despite being the second most subscribed channel on YouTube, little is known about the company that produces children's channel Cocomelon. Both the Wall Street Journal and Wired Magazine have investigated and been unable to find anything.