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TIL that Mark Wahlberg is a convicted felon

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ae8L TIL McDonald’s ran a McResource website and phone line, giving advice to employees to do things like return unopened Christmas gifts to get out of debt and assiting them in applying for food stamps.
R7Nv7 TIL it's very likely that military-style flails never existed. They are never described in medieval literature or chronicles. The original inventors were not weaponsmiths but illustrators. The smiths who made them from the 16th Century onward were just copying an idea rather than a thing.
QgXX TIL for severe crimes such as mutiny, the Royal navy used to punish men with “flogging round the fleet”. The criminal would be ferried from ship to ship, and whipped by the crew of every ship at port
lMnB TIL that Jim Jones, leader of Peoples Temple declared to his followers that all men were homosexual, except for him, despite being arrested and charged for soliciting a man for sex. NSFW
0wlmR Today I Learned that Neil Armstrong was paid the 2021 equivalent of around $490 for the time he spent on the moon.