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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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m180E TIL that the CUORE Detector located under Gran Sasso uses lead from a Roman shipwreck in its experiments as radioactive-free shielding in its hunt for neutrinos
064p TIL of George Raveling, Nike’s director of International Basketball, who currently holds the original typewritten copy of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech. MLK handed it to him when he stepped off the podium, and Raveling has kept it to this day and refuses to sell it.
QNQ4E TIL that Canada supplied India its first reactor, the CIRUS, during the 1950s, exclusively for "peaceful purposes", but over the protestations of Canada, became the source of India's first nuclear warhead.
Zp8lQ TIL: US torpedoes at the beginning of WW2 had an extremely high dud rate that took awhile to be acknowledged because the US Navy refused to allow live testing of ordinance as a cost saving measure.
GYO57 TIL The song "Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum increased the awareness of runaway minors, resulting in 26 missing person cases mentioned in the music video to be closed as of right now.