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TIL Jackie Gleason made $11 million dollars for making the Honeymooners.

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ALWo TIL Al Capone was known for sending flowers to rival gang member’s funerals; one funeral he spent over $5000 on flowers.
Br06r TIL that it is impossible that a planet (On this case, planet Earth) can substain it's life if it's cut in half, exposing it's core to the vacuum of space. It would eventually do a lot of stuff, incluiding dissolving it's atmosphere and ending all life on it
4kRNa TIL the 1954 Auburn vs Florida State football game featured a future governor in Fob James and a later legendary broadcaster in Lee Corso but the highlight came when Burt Reynolds sprinted 53 yards for a touchdown.
5VLoQ TIL that "Disaster Girl" Zoe Roth, who was 4 in the meme photo, sold an NFT of the pic in 2021 for a little under a half million dollars. She used the $ to pay off student loans after earning a BA in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
oMW7 TIL in 2005, Wells Fargo started a program to educate black communities on building “generational wealth.” This program turned out to be a front for steering black people into predatory loans. WF paid damages, but not before 100s of houses were foreclosed.