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TIL: A US businessman in dispute with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) paid his $3,000 tax bill using five wheelbarrows containing 300,000 coins.

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Aoa4 TIL an inmate confronted Al Capone to get back when he cut in the line, Al asked him if he knows who he is and while holding scissors to Capone’s neck he replied: “Yeah, I know who you are, greaseball. And if you don’t get back to the end of that fucking line, I’m gonna know who you were.”
Z8A8B TIL the metropolitan areas of New York City, Los Angeles and Miami contain nearly a quarter of the world's Jews.
0d1WA TIL according to a 2020 case report, a 32-year-old man presented with a 6 day history of deep anal pain and abdominal pain following an incident where a female partner had assaulted him by inserting a perfume canister into his rectum while he was drunk.
4km8X TIL that Victor Hugo Sosa, a Mexican politician, married an alligator. He serves as the mayor of San Pedro Huamelula, a town where marrying these reptiles has been a tradition for over 200 years.
grPo8 TIL: about the massacre of Kalavryta, where occupying German soldiers massacred an entire village for the death of 78 prisoners of war that had been captured by Greek guerrillas. Only 13 men survived, and one lone Austrian soldier saved the most of the women from being burned alive. 693 people died.