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TIL James Caan Once Had Joe Pesci Beaten Up In 'Mafia Style Hit' Over Unpaid Hotel Bill

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Eg4Oo TIL being sleep deprived can cause sexual arousal in mammals.
b9d40 TIL that future US President Ulysses S. Grant ordered all Jews be expelled from areas under his military control in 1862, blaming them for black market cotton trading. Lincoln overruled the order less than a month later.
1RVD TIL due to the popularity of the Beatles song, “Penny Lane” street signs in Liverpool were so often stolen, local authorities got tired of replacing them and began painting the street’s name onto the sides of buildings.
xVY50 TIL - Greenland got its name in 986 AD from the explorer Erik the Red's attempt to lure settlers to the ice-covered island: "it would induce settlers to go there, if the land had a good name".
N7bpQ TIL that if the Solar System fit in your hand the Milky Way galaxy would be size of North America