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TIL the mafia in New York City stole around $1billion dollars a year in the 1980s simply by evading gasoline taxes through a scheme where they created fake gas stations

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OowP7 TIL the Aztecs of Mexico used a “rabbit scale” to describe degrees of intoxication. It ranged from very mild intoxication (a few rabbits) to heavy drunkenness (400 rabbits).
6EKaJ TIL Nick Nolte was named 1992's "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine.
WkrE8 TIL that we eat plastics and it turns out we eat as much as a credit card in a week.
aGry TIL - That there was an experiment called the Three Christs of Ypsilanti, where three schizophrenics claiming to be Jesus were brought together to have their reactions documented. In the end, each came to the conclusion that the other two must have mental issues.
p8VB4 TIL the director of GoldenEye 007 (the game) discovered an issue with the N64's hardware, prior to the console's launch. Silicon Graphics, makers of the N64 chipset, considered doing a revision with a fix, but ultimately decided not to, due to costs and the possibility of that causing another delay