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TIL there is a shrine to a biker in India which is visited by hundreds of people daily

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oE1r TIL that when Tennessee seceded from the United States during the Civil War, the county of Scott, TN disagreed with the move so strongly that it seceded from Tennessee to form its own “free and independent state.” It only officially rejoined Tennessee in 1986.
p8lpp TIL that the monthly salary for the office of President of Haiti is 250,000 Haitian gourdes, or US$2.23.
AN7Za TIL Rudy Eugene, the attacker in the 2012 “zombie/bath salts” case, didn’t actually have bath salts in his system and it is still unclear why he attacked the victim that day.
erg5 TIL that 95% of consumers buy organic foods because they thought it meant it was pesticide free, even though farmers use pesticides on organic crops.
D81g TIL that prairie dogs have a complex language in which they can describe the size and shape of a human, the color of clothes the human is wearing, and even whether the human has a gun.