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TIL San Francisco voters select their first, second, and third choices for mayor

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OJ4X TIL Billionaire John D Rockefeller enjoyed giving away dimes to everyone he met, including children. He would give a dime for a good story, or pour dimes over a stain if someone spilled something. Sometimes he would even tease the person by holding back the dime.
VBY50 TIL During production of The Godfather, James Caan was known to hang out with Carmine Persico, aka "The Snake", a notorious mafioso and later head of the Colombo crime family. Government agents briefly mistook Caan, who was relatively unknown at the time, as an aspiring mobster.
1LnD TIL that the Bagger 288, a German coal mining vehicle has made appearances in The Hunger Games, Call of Duty, Ghost Rider, and even has a song named after it.
Lkwd0 TIL that the name Daisy is short for Margaret
oyE8 TIL Pet Rock was so popular in the 70’s that the creator became a multimillionaire about 6 months after marketing it.