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TIL about Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities, quasi anarchist communities of 300k people existing since 1994 in the middle of Mexico... and still working well 30 years later!

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deGj TIL that the first settlers of Madagascar arrived from Indonesia several hundred years before the Bantu people of Southeastern Africa came to the island. As a result, the people of Madagascar have some physical features characteristic of Southeast Asians.
kOkEe TIL that treason is the only crime defined in the United States Constitution, but it is almost never prosecuted.
Z8aGv TIL that laparoscopic surgeons who played video games performed faster and better compared to their non-gaming counterparts.
xV45o TIL one of the earliest possible proto-primates looked like an odd rat, and it was given the name "purgatorius."
RZv7 TIL when he became President Eisenhower allowed his son to serve in the Korean war only on one condition: that he promise never be captured alive