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TIL - Mount Carmel Cemetery is a popular final resting place for Chicago mobsters (Capone, Nitti, Giancana) as well as Chicago catholic cardinals.

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looXA TIL as much as 25% of the US sex offender registry is filled with juveniles.
v1E0j TIL the tomato is a berry. Its English name derives from the Aztec word for "fat or swelling fruit," and its Latin name literally means "wolf peach."
Wk9GB TIL In The Descent of Man, Darwin wrote only twice of “survival of the fittest” but 95 times about love , 92 times about moral sensitivity, and 200 times about mind and brain!
PQjV TIL that Salvador Dalí condemned clichés, stating: “The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.” Ironically, in stating this he himself was repeating the words of poet Gérard de Nerval.
R5WY8 TIL the world's first transplanted penis was reversed two weeks later because the recipient and his wife had such a "severe psychological problem" with it.