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TIL There is a subculture in Congo where members dress up like gentlemen.

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ANdyg TIL that Joan Hannington, 'The Godmother', was the most notorious female figure in London's criminal underworld during the 80s. With her stunning looks and glamorous wardrobe, Joan was underestimated, she used this to her advantage and became an undetected mastermind in high-stakes jewellery theft.
6EZWw TIL that evaporation of the man-made Salton Sea has caused algal blooms from concentrated fertilizer runoff, botulism-tainted fish, massive bird die-offs that required 24/7 incineration of the carcasses, and toxic, foul-smelling clouds of dust that wafted into Los Angeles.
9wNkM TIL of the British political movement “disestablishmentarianism”, which advocated separation of church and state. Those who oppose this movement are called “antidisestablishmentarianists”.
aw79M TIL at the start of Operation Good Hope, US forces were supposed to land on the beaches of Mogadishu under the cover of darkness. Instead, they were met by CNN who was covering the landing live on television.
1ar9O Til about the Tuskegee syphilis experiment conducted on 600 African American men by the U. S. public health service from 1932 to 1972 with the aim of observing the natural history of untreated syphilis