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TIL a man named Donald Dean Stenger ran a nationwide $20-million meth empire in the 80s, escaping police in a high-speed police chase into the desert, rigging a briefcase with a hidden automatic firearm, owning several gold mines in Mexico, and dying when a balloon of meth exploded inside him.

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5YA8Q TIL In 2003 New Zealand engineer Bruce Simpson designed an $5,000 cruise missile using off the shelf parts sourced from the Internet. Despite being entirely legal, his project was shut down by the government.
d9lB TIL that when Anne Frank’s family was arrested, her father showed the officer her height markers on the wall to prove how long they had been hiding, and after the diary was published, the officer said, “I bought the little book last week, to see if I was mentioned there, but I was not.”
7kyb TIL that 2 Chainz finished second in his high school class and graduated college with a 4.0 GPA
ADdJw TIL in 1964 the Rolling Stones wrote and performed a jingle for a Rice Krispies commercial.
9wpG7 TIL Thomas Edison controlled most of the film industry in New Jersey which annoyed smaller independent producers and filmmakers. They retaliated by moving their independent films to Hollywood, and eventually became Universal, Paramount and 20th-century Fox.