Fun Facts: The Mob

Life is mostly about the pursuit of knowledge and, therefore, the collection of fun facts. All my fun facts were harvested personally…They started as a physical book purchase from Amazon, then moved to a Kindle download where I bookmarked them by hand; at the conclusion of a book they were transcribed into a Snoopy Moleskine, and finally, they appear here for your personal wonderment.

• Earliest Italian organized crime was known as the “Black Hand”.
• Italian mafia organizations: The Camorra in Campania/Naples; the Cosa Nostra in Sicily; the Ndrangheta in Calabria.
• La Cosa Nostra means “Our Thing” or “This Thing of Ours”.
• A “made man” in the mafia is one who has full membership in La Cosa Nostra; when this happens, the tradition is to prick one’s finger, smear blood on the picture of a saint and then burn the picture in the palm of the hand.

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