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TIL About Bum Farto, a fire chief and convicted drug dealer in Key West, Florida who disappeared in 1976.

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9JpQ TIL of an Anaheim chef who serves free pasta meals to “motel kids” whose families cannot afford permanent homes. The chef was inspired by his Italian mother who saw a child eating potato chips for dinner and told him in Italian, “You must feed them the pasta!” He has served over 270,000 meals.
9xor TIL During the Cold War, the USSR thought the heavily trafficked building in the center courtyard of the Pentagon was a top-secret meeting room and pointed nukes at it. It was a hot dog stand.
OGaNe TIL in the 1900s, the United States Radium Corporation employed women to paint watch dials with glow-in-the-dark paint. The women were encouraged to put the paintbrushes in their mouths, leading to many developing fatal illnesses from ingesting radium.
oB4kW TIL about Hell, a village in Norway that has a grocery store, gas station, a fast food shop, and a retirement home. Until late 1995, the European route E6 highway went through Hell and across the Hell bridge, so you were literally able to drive on the Highway to Hell.
W7p7B TIL Sweet Adelines International is a worldwide organization for women barbershop harmony singers