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TIL - The REAL Sausage King of Chicago was not named Abe Froman (a la Ferris Bueller), but Adolph Luetgert, and murdered his wife by dissolving her in acid.

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E1nB0 TIL During the final hours of the music festival "Woodstock 99" a peace promotion organization handed out candles to the audience to create a candlelight vigil for the final hours of the festival. The audience used the candles to set fire to an audio tower and start bonfires.
OoyMY TIL of Busta Rhymes Island, a 40x40 island in Central Massachusetts unofficially named by a local who is trying to make the name official through common usage. When asked why the name "Busta Rhymes Island," the local said "It has rope swings, blueberries, and... stuff Busta would enjoy."
Zp7AY TIL that 25% of American cowboys were Black. I also learned that (its rumored) the term "Cowboy" originated from calling Black cow-hands, cow-boys as a derogatory term.
J9rl TIL that the ancient Greek geographer Pytheas from Massalia (modern Marseille, France) sailed to Great Britain and possibly Iceland as well, and was the first scientific thinker to connect the phases of the moon with the tides
Ooy6a TIL In North Korea western films are only available at private showings to high-ranking Party members, although the 1997 film Titanic is frequently shown to university students as an example of Western culture