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TIL that Wild Bill Hickok always had a personal rule to never play poker with his back facing the door. The one time he did, he was shot in the back of the head and killed.

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VMKG TIL the Federal Reserve secretly gave out $16,000,000,000,000 in a 0 % “all inclusive loan program” to failing banks and corporations all around the world
LOVm TIL that Mr. T was offered 75k USD to assassinate someone. His body guard reputation attracted strange offers and was frequently approached with odd commissions, which included: assassination, tracking runaway teenagers,and locating missing persons.
80kP TIL according to NASA, the use of nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million net deaths worldwide between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage.
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