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TIL Pinball was once banned because people thought it led to more youth crime.

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wnpJ TIL There was a homeless man who survived being intentionally fed Antifreeze, Turpentine, Rat poison, being left in -14 degree weather and hit by a taxi in a life insurance scam. His nickname became “Mike the Durable”
5V508 TIL of J. L. Hunter "Red" Rountree, who after his wife passed and seemingly with nothing left to live for decided to commit his first bank robbery at the age of 86. Red blamed banks for making him bankrupt and by the time he passed away in 2004 he had robbed 2 more banks.
Oolmg TIL almost all pictures we see of Venus are filtered for more cloud detail, or remove all clouds completely. Viewed naturally the planet appears bright white and nearly featureless due to the complete cloud cover.
N7JlQ TIL of the Kolyma Highway. A 1200+ mile long modern road in Russia that an estimated quarter of a million people died building. Because of permafrost, interment into the fabric of the road was deemed more practical than burying the bodies in new holes, resulting in the nickname The Road of Bones.
neV0G TIL that during the height of the Cold War, President Kennedy proposed the idea that the USA and USSR should work together to land a man on the moon. This was in order to minimise costs and to avoid doubling up on R&D.