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TIL Jack Black was the offical rat catcher for Queen Victoria and bred rats to sell them as pets

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Wkovo TIL that the famous Jeopardy "Think!" theme was composed by the show's creator Merv Griffin in less than a minute as a lullaby for his son. By 2005, he had made over $70 million dollars in royalties from that song, the equivalent of a Jeopardy contestant winning every game for about a decade.
jNRMR TIL: The appropriately dubbed ‘boss of all bosses’ of the Italian Mafia has been on the run for 26 years, and has been so successful at it that not a single picture exists of him from that time, despite being one of the worlds top 10 most wanted criminals.
egA6 TIL people used to do their laundry in Old Faithful; they put their clothes in the geyser and it would erupt with clean clothes
9YLR7 TIL Rudolf Mößbauer, age 32, won the 1961 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the Mößbauer effect named after him. During the Cold War he was one of the first to organize Seminars with Soviet physicists, long before this became feasible for US colleagues
VJ4D TIL the crew aboard the USS midway pushed $10 million worth of helicopters into the sea to allow a Cessna full of evacuees to safely land