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TIL in the Soviet Union between 1946-1964 there was a thriving black market for bootleg recordings made from discarded x-rays.

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KOKr9 TIL Late in his life, Charles Lindbergh had affairs that produced three children by a German woman and two children by her sister. These children only found out who their father was using DNA testing after his death.
QJMkE TIL In 1977 the Chicago Sun-Times bought a bar and ran it with undercover reporters to investigate widespread corruption.