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TIL 80% of shops in Sicily pay protection money to the Mafia.

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9J5p TIL There is a site where you can watch TV like it was in the 90s, including commercials, trailers, etc.
J1VB TIL that Jeff Foxworthy attended Ga. Tech, and worked in mainframe computer maintenance at IBM for 5 years.
yD1X TIL “Recovery from anesthesia is not simply the result of the anesthetic ‘wearing off,’ but also of the brain finding its way back through a maze of possible activity states to those that allow conscious experience,” one researcher said. “Put simply, the brain reboots itself.”
0wRQA TIL the officers who assassinated japanese Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi in 1932 also planned to kill his then guest Charlie Chaplin, in the hopes that this would provoke a war with the United States.
lo9nG TIL the third most successful political party in the United States by number of seats in state and national offices is the local Vermont Progressive Party, and it even holds a majority in the Burlington City Council.