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TIL There was a minor league baseball player named “Wonderful Terrific Monds III”

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0dmn5 TIL a “Made Man” is a fully initiated member of the Mafia and must be Italian and sponsored by another Made Man. The ceremony involves pricking the trigger finger and bleeding onto a burning picture of a saint while reciting an oath.
b6O4N TIL about the Angola Prison Rodeo, the longest-serving prison rodeo in the U.S. One event is “convict poker,” where a bull is released with the sole purpose of unseating poker players, and the players must resist the urge to run away in order to win.
9Wg7 TIL Utah, despite being known as one of the most religious and wholesome states, ranks number one out of all fifty states in online porn subscriptions.
x6jXo TIL that Gerard Way & Joe Rogan are cousins
wLJ1o TIL Joseph Lister, the father of antiseptic medicine, had the idea that surgeons could prevent infecting their patients by washing and disinfecting their hands with carbolic acid before surgery. This idea earned him ridicule—until people started noticing that it did indeed help.