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TIL Al Capone, America’s most notorious gangster sponsored the charity that served up three hot meals a day to thousands of the unemployed—no questions asked.

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5YAB TIL two thirds of teenagers in the UK are atheists
9YpPX TIL the 'dementia village' in the Netherlands is a nursing home disguised to look like the outside world
OoydR TIL contrary to fears of 'idiocracy', IQ around the world has seen substantial increase, in Britain rising 14 IQ points since the 1940s. Better health, nutrition, education and standards of living are thought to be the cause
8yeX TIL of Project COLDFEET, a 1962 operation where two CIA operatives were airdropped onto an abandoned Soviet research station on an ice floe, retrieved information on advanced submarine detection systems, and were extracted via the Fulton Skyhook recovery system to a modified B-17.
jN9Ov TIL "This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours" - Is the message NASA launched as a record into space in 1977 attached to Voyager 1.