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TIL that the Italian-American Civil Rights League was founded by the mafia to improve the image of mobsters. They forced the producer of the The Godfather to remove all references to the word 'mafia' from the screenplay even though the novel repeatedly uses the word.

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NXEAM TIL The song "My Mammy" famously sung by Al Jolson in the first talkie film "The Jazz Singer"in 1927, was first sung in 1918 as a vaudeville act by William Frawley, who later became a star in the TV show "I Love Lucy".
LNAp TIL There is a vigilante group of women in India whose mission includes beating up abusive husbands.
DQvwP TIL of a fungus that infects periodical cicadas, Massospora cicadina, which produces drug-like substances such as an amphetamine analogue, causing infected cicadas to be hypersexual, as well as causing infected male cicadas to allow themselves to be mounted by other males in order to infect them.
1ayPP TIL Vanilla Beans Don’t All Taste Like Vanilla
ONDg TIL that the suicide rate in the US has risen to a 30-Year High, particularly for middle-waged citizens (45 to 64) with the rate rising 63% for women and 43% for men in that age group