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

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XkQQ TIL that amateur wrestling Olympic gold medalist Robin Reed could pin every member of the 1924 United States Olympic wrestling team, despite being in the second lowest weight class
nWN7G TIL that 97% of the United States is rural.
9Yk57 TIL During Prohibition, moonshiners would wear "cow shoes." The fancy footwear left hoofprints instead of footprints, helping distillers and smugglers evade police.
vV4K TIL a British TV show intercepted TV and Internet feeds, creating weeks of fake stories and programs from trusted sources, and staged a zombie apocalypse using hundreds of actors, just to convince one person the world was ending.
R54ma TIL "gene guns" (referred to formally as biolistic particle delivery systems) exist. They work by firing small, metal bullets coated with genetic material at a target. While normally used on plants due to the relative ease of transformation, they have also been tested on animal cell cultures.