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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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P184n TIL of the world's oldest known song: The Hurrian Hymn (written 1400 BCE)
daK8 TIL That there is a museum in Kentucky that acts as a place of rest for dummies of ventriloquists that have died, it’s called the Vent Haven Museum.
697vJ TIL that when Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes, he was working as a doctor in the NHS. On the day he broke the record, he had already worked a morning shift at St Mary's hospital in London, and then caught the train to Oxford where he ran the race.
MeaE7 TIL Mississippi set up a commission that became a de facto intelligence organization which surveilled people suspected of being anti-segregationist. The commission was eventually linked to the murder of three civil rights workers. It existed between 1956 and 1977 and profiled over 87 000 people.
LkPLm TIL Led Zeppelin used to rent entire hotel sections and thrash them so much that they received multiple permanent bans from the establishments. Most notable being John Bohnam driving a motorcycle at a rented hotel floor