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TIL that when Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd would rob banks he he would destroy or steal the mortgages to local farms.

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KOovR TIL In 2013, while walking their dog in their back yard, a married couple came across several rusty buckets sticking out of their land. The buckets were full of gold coins minted from 1847 to 1894. The total value of all the coins was about $11 million.
Lka4Q TIL The animatronic Gremlins in the 1984 movie were originally going to be played by monkeys, but that plan was abandoned after the test monkey panicked when wearing a Gremlin head.
WkBvY Today I learned there is an ethnic group in Myanmar known as the "Karen People".
rr01 TIL that astrophysicist Carl Sagan and his wife would smuggle books about the history of the Russian Revolution into the USSR so that their colleagues could read them, since recorded history lessons in Russia were actively manipulated by Joseph Stalin at the time.
pN9Z TIL: Jimmy Savile was not just a paedophile. His victims were aged up to 75, and he was an overt necrophiliac.