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TIL about the ‘Hooper’s Pass;’ an unwritten gang member code that protected and avoided targeting excellent local HS basketball players

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8a8AK TIL that the St. Patrick's Day tradition of dyeing the Chicago river green arose by accident when a group of plumbers used green dye to trace illegal substances that were polluting the river. The dyeing of the river is still sponsored by the local plumbers union.
M7oMB TIL about Giovanni Battista Bugatti, known as Mastro Titta. An Italian executioner of the Papal States who executed 514 people during his 68 years of activity. Bugattis blood-stained clothes, axes, and guillotines are on display at the Museum of Criminology at Via del Gonfalone in Rome.
OG0o1 TIL that before password protection was common, IBM computers had a physical key lock. The function of the locks ranged from preventing keyboard input, locking the power switch in the "off" position, and preventing the computer case from being opened.
7jxb TIL Mr. Yuk was chosen by asking children what images they liked best. Mr. Yuk almost always was least liked by kids.
4kRj6 TIL For a restaurant scene late in the movie The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), director John Cassavetes invited a number of prominent Hollywood studio executives to play extras, but then deliberately removed all their faces from the final cut.