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TIL: Mexican Ranchero named Don Alejo (aged well in his 70s) killed 4 Los Zetas cartel members after they attempted to seize his ranch. He boarded up windows and used only his hunting rifles placed around his house. He died after they destroyed his house with grenade launchers.

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VBj70 TIL in 2018 after a man bought a storage unit for $500 from 'Storage Wars' auctioneer Dan Dotson, he discovered a safe within it contained $7.5m in cash. When the original owners of the unit found out, they first offered him $600K to return the rest of the loot, but settled on giving him $1.2m.
KOW6J TIL in 2010, Iran banned mullets, adding it to a list of hairstyles it deemed "decadent Western cuts" and "un-Islamic."
Meye7 TIL: Binghamton University researchers have been working on a self-healing concrete that uses a specific type of fungi as a healing agent. When the fungus is mixed with concrete, it lies dormant until cracks appear, when spores germinate, grow and precipitate calcium carbonate to heal the cracks.
Y68P TIL John Oliver was recommended to Jon Stewart for a job on the Daily Show by Ricky Gervais. Oliver didn’t know Gervais personally at the time and had never been to the USA before auditioning.
Bgvjd TIL: Viking-era Scandinavians believed every person had a sort of luck spirit that could leave the body under extreme circumstances. The English saying that someone’s luck has run out is actually an adaptation of a Norse proverb. But when the Norse said it, they meant it literally.