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TIL the FBI recruited a mafia enforcer to help solve the slaying of three civil rights workers by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in the 1960s. Gregory Scarpa kidnapped a klansman, put a gun in his mouth and forced him to reveal the spot where the three had been buried.

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QNyp9 TIL that in 1984, 6,600 tons of radioactive rebar were distributed throughout Mexico and the U.S. after a radiation therapy unit was sent to a junkyard in Juárez, Mexico and converted into scrap metal. 814 irradiated buildings were ultimately demolished and 4,000 people were exposed.
l7OoB TIL That in 1900, the population of Las Vegas was 22.
VMWwZ TIL the founder of The North Face died of hypothermia
6WkQ TIL: Marilyn Monroe was raised in foster care & later, admitted to 2 psychiatric hospitals. Her mother was unwed & mentally unstable when she gave birth. Her mother & both maternal grandparents were in mental institutions. To escape foster care, Marilyn married one of her neighbors when she was 16.
rvNx TIL John F. Kennedy was buried without his brain after it was lost during the autopsy.