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TIL: By age 23, 49% of black males, 44% of Hispanic males and 38% of white males have been arrested.

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R7Rw6 TIL that in 1799 Aaron Burr raised $2mil to provide drinking water to Manhattan. He used $1.9mil of that to found a bank instead, and the water he did provide was often contaminated. NYC did not have a clean water source until 1842. The bank he founded is now known as JPMorgan Chase
grwZ8 Til during The Carrington Event, the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, on 1–2 September 1859, some telegraph operators were able to send and receive messages despite having disconnected their power supplies.
b9rWa TIL In The American Mafia, one of the eight rules is you cannot have Facial Hair
GQ57 TIL that one of the earliest surviving pornographic films, called El Satario, features three young women bathing in a river having sex with each other, and then the devil appears and one of the women has oral sex with the devil.
8aGG4 TIL in Norway, stripping counts as an art form for tax purposes.