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TIL that in Ohio, one of the first documented criminal rings was the Society of the Banana

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wonbo TIL starting in 2001, Dell Glover became the "world's leading leaker of pre-release music." He worked at a Universal CD pressing plant & was a member of a file-sharing group called Rabid Neurosis. Over an 11-year period, Rabid Neurosis was responsible for leaking over 20,000 albums.
X0GR TIL that nearly the entire student body and faculty of Ole Miss joined the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and suffered a 100% casualty rate.
P1j0e TIL The CIA and Skunkworks figured out a way to cloak the SR71's massive engines from radar
pY41Z TIL it was legal in India to burn the widow alive in her husbands funeral until 1987
5Yaln TIL that the name of Bahamas Is believed to come from the Taino language "Ba Ha Ma", although It is also considered its derivation from the Spanish "Baja Mar", which means "Shallow water".