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TIL….about Richard McNair, a prisoner placed in the federal supermax facility in Colorado because he had previously escaped 3 times, including when he successfully mailed himself out of jail in a package.

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Bgv0b TIL in 1990, a Domino's Pizza owner in Washington DC noticed a record-breaking number of pizza orders from the Pentagon leading up to the Invasion of Kuwait. Similar increases happened leading up the Panama Invasion and Grenada Invasion; the intelligence leakage became known as The Pizza Meter
64wQ TIL when Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to the White House, Senator Benjamin Tillman said “The action of President Roosevelt in entertaining that nigger will necessitate our killing a thousand niggers in the South before they learn their place again.”
grl5y TIL while aspirin is a generic item in the United States, in Canada it is made exclusively by Bayer and is known as Aspirin.
GYvW4 TIL Italian police officers posed as "pizza delivery boys" in order to arrest mafia boss Roberto Manganiello of Naples’ notorious Camorra mafia, listed as “one of Italy’s 100 most dangerous criminals” as he watched football in his apartment. He offered no resistance to the fake "delivery boys."
awWao TIL some chips have trillions of transistors, or IBM's supercomputer, for example, has over 73 trillion transistors. https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/12/07/the-first-computer-chip-with-a-trillion-transistors