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TIL that Ayn Rand, upon her retirement, went onto Social Security and Medicare.

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E1PL7 TIL in 1977 David Begelman, then head of Columbia Pictures, was caught embezzling $75,000 from the studio. To avoid a scandal he was quietly fired, and three years later became CEO of MGM. The actor who discovered his embezzlement was Blacklisted by the studio for reporting it to the police.
6PEJ TIL that the world’s most powerful commercially available flashlight can be used to start fires.
NPyb TIL that Robert Catesby was the leader of the Gunpowder Plot, even though the day is named after Guy Fawkes
kOBnE TIL Typhoid Mary refused to wash her hands when preparing meals because she insisted on not having typhoid, even though almost all families she cooked for contracted the disease.
78GKr TIL about Arnulf Fuhrmann, who planned to make Uruguay and Argentina Nazi colonies but failed