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TIL that American media reform originated as a movement to increase equal access to public education through radio instruction.

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bX1E TIL The Ebola virus wiped out 70 to 95% of the 20,000 gorillas in Congo’s d'Odzala national park between 2003 and 2005
eYP5 TIL the Aztecs had penalties for being drunk which ranged from head-shaving to the death penalty.
lokbr TIL about the city of Cahokia; a Native American (Mississippian) city built on the Mississippi which had over 140 hand-built earthen mounds, more people than contemporaneous London, a copper smelting workshop and 5 concentric circles of posts which line up with the sun on equinoxes and solstices.
9nnQ TIL: France and Netherlands share a land border . It’s in the Caribbean on Saint Martin - the smallest inhabited island divided between two countries
oBAaY TIL that George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party in 1959 (which is still around today) was murdered by a previous party member that he expelled in 1967 for trying to inject Marxist views in their publications