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TIL, the residents of Cheran, Mexico armed themselves and kicked out the ruling cartel as well as every politician and policeman. It now functions as a legal self-governing indigenous community with a crime rate near 0%

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ekPb TIL in the middle of the Savannah International Airport lies a 200 year old grave in the runway, marked because the family was reluctant to move the graves to another location while the airport was urgently built to use for bombers during WW2.
X0ZRk TIL There’s still king of the Zulu
nLAo TIL that an estimated that 90 percent of the body’s serotonin is made in the digestive tract
9kB7 TIL: Swear words are processed in a separate part of the brain from regular speech (and they actually reduce pain!)
yWpJ TIL that Hitler’s plan for Moscow was to kill all residents and replace it with a lake