Post * oByOr — Curious Curator

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TIL that legendary crime fighter Eliot Ness was promised by Al Capone that $2,000 would be on his desk every Monday morning if he turned a blind eye to his gang's bootlegging activities ( $33,000 a week in 2018 adjusting for inflation). Ness refused the bribe, was penniless when he died in 1957.

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OoKM6 TIL a producer on Family Ties felt Michael J. Fox was too short for the role and tried to have him replaced saying “this isn’t the face you'll see on a lunch-box." Fox later gave him a custom-made lunch-box with the inscription "this is for you to put your crow in. Love and Kisses, Michael J. Fox.”

lLJ7 TIL Brendan Hufford, founder of kids martial arts company OK Kimonos, once held a clothing drive for poor children in Brazil that raised $3,000 and 100 uniforms. He didn’t donate any of the uniforms or money to the charity, but promoted his business as doing such.

MgbV TIL That Irena Sendler was a remarkable woman who defied the Nazis and saved 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto. The Nazis eventually discovered her activities, tortured her brutally, and sentenced her to death, but she managed to evade execution and survive the war.

5YKx9 TIL that the US Women's National Team lost 5-2 against a Dallas boys squad made up of kids under 15

AN6Bo Today I learned that women's soccer was banned in many countries from the 1940s to the 1970s. In England, the ban began as early as 1921, with England's Football Association stating that "the game of football is quite unsuitable for females and ought not to be encouraged."