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TIL During WWII, the British sent POWs prison escape kits hidden inside of Monopoly game boxes containing silk maps, metal files, money, and compasses.

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nWlAr TIL about Raoul Whitfield, one of the earliest American hardboiled detective fiction writers. Close friends with Dashiell Hammett, he was briefly married to New York socialite Emily Davies Vanderbilt Thayer and created the character Jo Gar, a Spanish-Filipino detective in Manila.
xVRrb TIL an investigation by the FTC found that 4 cancer charities used 97% of their funds for private executive use including "vehicles, college tuition, gym memberships, Jet Ski outings, dating website subscriptions, luxury cruises, and tickets to concerts and professional sporting events"
xV4b0 TIL that the seminole wars began because assimilated seminoles were harboring self liberators who took refuge in florida (page 3)!
ExR0 TIL before modern weight training, pairs of old church bells were often fashioned together by a rod so they could be lifted. The clappers were removed making the bells silent, or dumb, hence the term ‘dumbbell.’
D1enY TIL that the US Food & Drug Administration keeps extending the deadline for the biggest food chains to comply with nearly decade-old federal calorie disclosure laws