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TIL: The appropriately dubbed ‘boss of all bosses’ of the Italian Mafia has been on the run for 26 years, and has been so successful at it that not a single picture exists of him from that time, despite being one of the worlds top 10 most wanted criminals.

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eVJ5 TIL a man built a secret apartment at mall, gets away with it for four years
4gpa TIL The German word Backpfeifengesicht - a face that cries out for a fist in it.
nMXo TIL: that a man has a bottle garden that he has not watered for 40 years, its still alive due to the plant creating a self sustained ecosystem
BgRBK TIL that a "Jellyfish Lake" exists in Palau, where millions of jellyfish evolved without stingers over thousands of years, allowing humans to safely swim alongside them.
aw57Z TIL cocktails originated from horses who had their tails docked. In the 1800's they docked tails of horses that were not thoroughbred - 'cocktailed horses'. It later referred to a vulgar, ill-bred person, and finally an 'acceptable diluted alcoholic drink, not purebred, and raised above its station'