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TIL an inmate confronted Al Capone to get back when he cut in the line, Al asked him if he knows who he is and while holding scissors to Capone’s neck he replied: “Yeah, I know who you are, greaseball. And if you don’t get back to the end of that fucking line, I’m gonna know who you were.”

kOBK5 TIL that Steven Spielberg is the reason we have historical World War II first person shooters. Medal of Honor was created in 1999 Steven Spielberg wanted to make a video game that could teach kids about World War II. his game laid down the the groundwork for the genre to continue
788Kx TIL Malika Oufkir, daughter of a Moroccan politician who failed at the coup d'etat in 1977, and her mother and siblings spent 15 years in the desert prison before escaping in 1991.
6ll7 TIL the Olsen Twins required dentures during the filming Full House, because they lost their baby teeth at different rates, and needed their character’s smile to look uniform.
ngj9 TIL that during World War II a Dutch minesweeper evaded the Japanese for eight days disguised as an island. The crew covered the decks in cut trees and painted exposed surfaces to look like rocks. They moved only at night and anchored closed to shore by day, eventually escaping to Australia.
8mOV TIL the Grasshopper mouse is a carnivorous rodent that eats scorpions, snakes, and even kills and eats other mice. It also stalks its prey in the manner of a cat and defends its territory by ‘howling’ like a wolf while being immune to various venoms.