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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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XEo96 TIL: Many of the Space Shuttles parts were produced exclusively by small mom and pop shops. When the shuttle retirement was announced, a lifetime buy of parts was made — when the Shuttle retired, the mom and pop shops retired with it.
m1kp TIL in 1954 a Japanese trawler was caught in the fallout of the Castle Bravo nuclear test, killing its radioman; his last words were “I pray that I am the last victim of an atomic or hydrogen bomb.”
l7RaB TIL that Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) had 11 children in total and 7 of them are still alive. The youngest, Christopher Chaplin, is just 62 years old. Charlie Chaplin also had a half-brother, George Dryden, whose son would be the drummer for Jefferson Airplane.
Ql7d TIL that director Bryan Singer had convinced the main cast of The Usual Suspects that they were all Keyser Soze. The cast didn’t find out the twist ending until the first screening. Gabriel Byrne was so stunned, he yelled at Singer for half an hour.
DQ4EP TIL Gatorade was invented by the University of Florida and is named after the Florida Gators