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TIL that an estimated one in four cowboys were black.

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ZpXgR TIL that after 5 years undercover in the Mafia, Joseph Pistone (aka “Donnie Brasco”) earned a $500 bonus from the FBI and a $500,000 kill bounty ($1.7M today) from the Mob
16r8W TIL the only resident ambassador in Liechtenstein is a knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
5L4r TIL of “The Case of the Stolen Smell” in which an innkeeper accused a poor student of stealing the fumes of his cooking by eating when the innkeeper was cooking to flavour his dull food. The judge ordered the student to pay the innkeeper with the sound of money by passing it from one hand to another
wL7pW TIL that military snipers carry what is often called a “dope book. Dope is an acronym for: Data On Previous Engagements.
oB1or TIL that according to Graham Nash, Jimi Hendrix was unbeatable at the game Risk, especially while on LSD.