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wLgm8 TIL When the Chinese migrated overseas to California in the 1800s, secret society chapters migrated with them. The chapters were known as tongs, from the Chinese word meaning assembly hall.
OoXDg TIL: Vietnam has an island in the South China Sea with military bases, civilians, and tourism for locals, called Spratly Island, the main island in the infamous chain.
R7PD8 TIL in 1740, a mother, annoyed that her son would play immature pranks on people wrote “All his talents lie in things only natural in boys of fifteen years old, and he is about two and fifty; to get people into his garden and wet them, and put things in their beds to make them itch”