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TIL that the first written accounts of what was the precursor to the Italian-American Mafia appear in 1860’s New Orleans.

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0d0Jp TIL that before his involvment in the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler was extremely lazy, never had a real job, dropped out of school and was very poor for many years. At one point he was sleeping on park benches and begging for money and later lived at a home for poor men for a few years.
5Y7Gr TIL that Ruso, North Dakota, population 4, is the state’s least populous city. The Mayor’s name is Bruce. He won re-election 3 votes to zero.
4j5 TIL that strawberries aren’t actually berries, but bananas, avocados, pumpkins and watermelons are.
wLZM7 TIL that during World War 1, the Germans disguised one of their ships as a British ship, the RMS Carmania, and sent it out to ambush British vessels. In a hilariously bad stroke of luck, the first ship it encountered was the real RMS Carmania, which promptly sank them.
N7Qy1 TIL In 1979 the Black-footed ferret was declared extinct. In 1981 the species was rediscovered when a dog in Meeteetse, Wyoming brought a dead ferret home. A small population was found and today the Black-footed ferret is making a comeback.