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TIL: During the Great Depression, Al Capone, the notorious gangster from Chicago, established the first soup kitchen.

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PbYE TIL A bank in Utah was made using parcel post delivered bricks, around one ton of bricks sent a day. After the building was completed, the regulations were changed, with the post office claiming “It is not the intent of the post office that buildings be sent through mail.”
KP4w TIL By paying a fee of $300 you could officially and legally avoid the civil war draft. You could also find a substitute to fight in your place, a tactic the rich often used to avoid being enlisted. To encourage recruits to join, even Abraham Lincoln paid a man $500 to enlist on his behalf.
JYVm1 TIL Blue whales eat half a million calories in one mouthful
6EBE8 TIL Neil Armstrong had to go through US customs when he came back from the moon.
Me54a TIL that besides white, cotton can grow in shades of green, blue, red, brown, and tan