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TIL gangster Meyer Lansky and his associates including Lucky Luciano used their power to break up American Bund rallies

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X0L1X TIL the Dominican Republic has had 39 constitutions since 1844, the most of any country
b9pLa TIL, in 1948, a man wore 30-pound, 3-toed lead shoes and stomped around a Florida beach in the night. The footprints lead people to believe that a 15-foot tall penguin was roaming their lands. He kept up the prank for 10 years, visiting various beaches. The hoax wasn't revealed until 40 years later.
a8eoL TIL that despite being leader of the CDU and serving as the Chancellor of Germany, Ludwig Erhard was never officially a member of the CDU, a fact that was not made public until decades later.
mx4GE TIL in 1960, soul singer Jesse Belvin played to Arkansas' first ever racially integrated audience. The performance was interrupted twice by white protesters. After the show, Belvin was killed in a head-on collision. It was discovered that his car tires had been slashed.
RM46 TIL that one of the most popular radio acts of the 1930s was a ventriloquist, a fact which baffled contemporary critics.