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ZEM4 TIL the Jamaican bobsled team returned to the Winter Olympics in ‘14 after failing to qualify in '06 & '10. Lacking funds, the cryptocurrency Dogecoin community raised $30,000 on the teams behalf in two days
b9PMQ TIL that "Social Urbanism" approach to urban planning helped take Medellin from Pablo Escobar's most dangerous city in the world to a "model city" tourist destination. Medellin tackled crime and violence "not through more policing but through urban planning, infrastructure, and social programs."
Wkx6A TIL A new study finds that when 25 percent of people in a group adopt a new social norm, it creates a tipping point where the entire group follows suit. This shows the direct causal effect of the size of a committed minority on its capacity to create social change
ep7Gn TIL about Don Arrigo Beccari, a WW2 Catholic Priest, who was responsible for smuggling 120 Jewish children to safety, despite intense Nazi surveillance. When the Nazis captured him and tortured him for months, he still kept quiet. He was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 1964.
Qj4a TIL Britain got ‘Ding Dong the witch is dead’ to number two in the charts after Margaret Thatcher Died