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TIL Chicago mobster Sam DeStefano loaned money at interest rates of 25% by week to very high-risk debtors such as drug addicts, in order to torture them in his cellar when they defaulted

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pA6Z TIL Svalbard is the northernmost settlement in the world with a permanent civilian population. It has an estimated population of 2,642 and is among the safest places on Earth, with virtually no crime.
aOYM TIL the richest 85 people in the world have more money than the poorest half of the world (thats 3.5 Billion People)
oBEa8 TIL the American with the most days in space is Peggy A. Whitson. At 665 days, she has nearly spent two years literally without her feet on the ground.
5RkR TIL Paul McCartney occasionally rides the bus as a normal guy and chats to people. “It grounds you, you know. It’s a balance thing. I’m just one of the people on the bus. I’m the famous one, but I’m behaving normally… Really, it’s important.”
VM5ym TIL about the Mandela Effect, in which large groups of people share a misinterpretted memory.