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TIL John Mellancamp's former keyboardist was placed on the FBI's most wanted list and eventually caught for producing child pornography

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P1L9G TIL of Antoine Le Picard who had hated Napoleon ever since they were both teenagers at school and in his dying act, Picard helped defeat Napoleon at the Battle of Acre.
yVVxw TIL: During WW1 British officers had their coffins screwed shut while non-ranking soldiers had theirs nailed shut.
G84N TIL: There’s an anime and manga in Japan called Saint Young Men, which is about Jesus and Buddha living as roommates in Tokyo while taking a vacation on Earth and attempting to understand Japanese society.
XGM6 TIL more than 900 American troops were alive at the end of the Korean War but were never released by the North Koreans. In 1996, as many as 15 of them might have still been alive.
B5Jr TIL Tim Allen got caught bringing 1.4lbs of cocaine in a U.S airport in 1978. He snitched out other dealers to reduce his sentence from life imprisonment to 7 years.