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TIL the mafia ultimately has its roots in Ferdinand I's horrendous mismanagement of the economy of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and the Kingdom of Italy's subsequent failure to make anything better after its conquest of southern Italy

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j6XZj TIL that Philip Gale was a child prodigy who killed himself at age 19 by jumping from a classroom window. Before he did it, he wrote on the blackboard Newton's equation for how an object accelerates as it falls, along with a sketch of a stick figure tossing a chair. He signed it, " Phil was here. "
WkbNY TIL: Chris Ballew, the lead singer of the band “The Presidents of the United States” also sings kids songs under the name “Caspar Babypants”.
n9PW TIL John Stewart is considered a more trustworthy news source than MSNBC. Source chart and data on page 36.
M1Am TIL that states signed a 20-year contract and promised a 90 percent occupancy rate over that period to CCA to commit to maintaining prisons filled to capacity.
oR9ME TIL Jews began arriving to Jamaica in the 1490s. By the 1700s they formed 18% of the capital's population and worshipped openly at both Sephardic and Ashkenazi synagogues. In the 1830s, they became full citizens of the nation - before many Jewish communities in Europe...