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TIL Patreon co-founder and CEO Jack Conte has an eclectic career, including a role as a voice actor on The Sims 2, and more notably as the founder of two different bands, Pomplamoose and Scary Pockets, both of which have their own successful Patreon accounts.

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aMDM TIL: In 1963, a man knocked down a wall of his home. Behind it, he discovered a mysterious room and soon discovered an intricate tunnel system with additional cave-like rooms. What he had discovered was the ancient Derinkuyu underground city in Turkey.
WVJo TIL There’s a gang of jewel thieves called the Pink Panthers. It’s believed they’ve stolen $Billions. Attention to detail is their reason for success. They once painted a bench across from a jewelry store before a robbery, so people wouldn’t sit on the bench (fresh paint) and see them mid-robbery.
d89rr TIL there was a “gay Hooters” restaurant in Dallas, Texas called Tallywackers that failed within a year of opening
xMQ5 TIL Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos still drives his 1996 Honda Accord. That model today costs around $4000.
p8kap TIL that Adolf Hitler had a nephew named William Patrick Hitler, who was born in the UK in 1911. He tried blackmailing the Fuhrer, and later immigrated to the US in 1939. He was drafted into the USN in 1944, and after the war, lived quietly in Long Island and passed away in 1987.