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TIL Harvey’s Wagon Wheel Casino was heavily damaged by a bomb in an extortion attempt in 1980. The bomb was designed and built by a millionaire businessman is the most complex improvised explosive device ever created, according to the FBI.

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OMJa TIL Only four countries have no national law mandating paid time off for new parents: Liberia, Papua New Guinea, Swaziland, and the United States.
m1Rwv TIL The Beatles (then the Quarrymen) paid 17s 6d (87.5p or £25.82 in 2023) for their first recording session in 1958.
Z8mNp TIL about Hanns Scharff, the most successful German Interrogator in WW2. He would not use torture, but rather walk with prisoners in the nearby woods and treat them like a friend. Through the desire to speak to anyone, the prisoners would say small parts of important Info.
x6MAb TIL in 1877 Egyptian Government gifted a gigantic 3500 year old obelisk to the US and it took teams of engineers years to remove, ship, transport over land, and erect in Central Park
gM9K9 TIL that along with blacksmiths, there are "whitesmiths" who work with tin or other light metals and "brownsmiths" who work with brass or copper.