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TIL J. Edgar Hoover had the world’s largest porn collection at the time

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WkPWL TIL that Ida Wood wife of the owner of the New York Daily News in the early 1900's was a recluse at the Herald Square Hotel for decades & paid all her bills in cash & never let anyone in until the day her sister died. That's when people found out she was VERY wealthy & wasn't who she said she was.
4XRWN TIL about John Draper. He used the whistles found in Cap'n Crunch cereal boxes in the 1960's to bypass phone systems and place free long-distance calls as they played at 2600 Hzs—the perfect tone to commandeer a phone line. His work inspired the founders of Apple.
OodbL TIL about Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s. Scapegoated for taking jobs away from "real" Americans during the Great Depression, state and local governments illegally forced hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens into forced exile simply for having Mexican ancestry.
Q9Gd TIL in 2012, former Marine and game developer Amir Hekmati was sentenced to death in Iran for a video game called Kuma/War. His execution was overturned, but he remains in prison today.
9X7B TIL Pink Floyd’s hit album “The Wall” was influenced by a bunch of roudy concert goers who annoyed Rodger Waters so much that he decided to write an album about building a metaphorical wall.