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TIL Google maps shows areas in Los Angeles that are controlled by Crips or Bloods

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R75x9 TIL in 2009 an office worker was fired for writing emails in ALL CAPS
8eg9L TIL Roger Ebert’s Superbad review was simply headlined “McLovin It.” He gave it 3.5/4 stars, comparing it to Animal House but calling it “more mature, as all movies are.”
j64wn TIL about the gyro monorail a form of rail transport that ran on only 1 set of wheels and ran on a single line of railway track.It stayed upright using a gyroscope and could even bank on turns. It never made it past the prototype stage due to the costs of needing a gyroscope in every car in a train.
oBaKo TIL that the abbreviation a.m stands for "ante meridiem" and p.m means "post meridiem".
VBMA0 TIL In WW1, artist Johannes Koelz received an Iron Cross for bravery in rescuing a comrade from behind enemy lines. Years later he fell out of favour with the Nazis, but the man they sent to arrest him was the very man whose life he'd saved, and he allowed Koelz 48 hours to escape