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TIL pinball was illegal for over 30 years in America and even had it’s own crime boss who specialized in the illegal pinball machine industry.

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mxXEY TIL of Joe Arridy, a mentally disabled man who was executed for a murder he didn’t commit. Police also arrested the true killer who was found with the murder weapon & identified by the victim’s sister. Arridy didn’t understand his fate & laughed & smiled entering the gas chamber.
awlnA TIL of John Mosbys Sack, a lost treasure buried in rural Virgina. In 1863 Confederate Colonel Mosby and his men snuck into the Fairfax VA county courthouse and got away with $350,000 in gold silver jewelry and heirlooms. He buried the sack between 2 large trees after the raid where it remains hidden
W77NL TIL about the Brahminy Blind Snake, a species of snake the size of an earthworm and can be found on every continent
oBekr TIL that the Southern Pacific Comapy, while best known for its railroad operations, also owned and operated telegraph and telephone lines under the name Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telephony, which would later become the telecommunications company known by the acronym "Sprint."
6E7dl TIL Geoffrey Chaucer’s contemporary use of lower-class Saxon English to write his works. rather than conventional Latin or upper class spoken French, has perplexed scholars for centuries. He was the first to truly begin to develop English into a highly flexible literary language.