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TIL after stealing $65M from Wall Street elite, Bernie Madoff went to jail where he became the prison's hot chocolate kingpin by cornering the hot chocolate market

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9Y1br Today I learned that Elvis Costello went by the pseudonym “Napoleon Dynamite” for his 1986 LP “Blood and Chocolate.” Jared Hess, Director of the 2004 film claims there is no connection.
9wOam TIL King Fahad Intl AirPort in Saudi Arabia has an area of nearly 766 sq km making it the largest airport in the World, larger than entire Bahrain
pYr4G TIL the name "Candace" is derivative of "Kandake", a title bestowed upon the Nubian Warrior Queens of Meroe (Modern day Sudan) who were so formidable that they managed to thwart the Romans.
9wW9M TIL about garden path sentences which is a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect
BrXVK TIL barns are painted red because old paint recipes contained ferrous oxide (rust). Rust was plentiful on farms and because it killed fungi and mosses that might grow on barns, and it was very effective as a sealant. It turned the mixture red in color.