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TIL Michael Clarke Duncan gave 5 dollars to anyone who recognised him in the street. RIP.

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BgX1D TIL A school had a mascot named after a racial slur, and some people are still mad when the school changed the mascot.
a709 TIL that in 1952 while in an institution Charles Manson held a razor to another boy’s throat while he sodomized him before being released on parole in 1954.
vl5K TIL that when asked why his heroes defeated villains with the last bullet in their guns Gardner answered: “Every time I say ‘Bang’ in a story I get three cents. If you think I’m going to finish a battle while my hero still has fifteen cents worth of unexploded ammunition in his gun, you’re nuts”.
OGQL6 TIL that Telex, a telecommunication service that provides text-based message exchange for teleprinter devices at receiving and sending locations, declined as fax machines grew in popularity in the 1980s.
br07 TIL: The City of Anarchy (also called the Walled City) was the most densely populated city on earth until 1994. The community thrived with little to no government intervention, and citizens developed groups that would maintain the city for no profit.