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TIL much like fair trade exists, in Italy a grassroots movement markets products as anti-mafia protection money in the areas worst effected by it

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R7V77 TIL the biggest infrastructure project in the U.S. ($512 BILLION), the Interstate Highway System, was built and championed by Eisenhower in 1956, because he thought it was virtually impossible to travel US roads after experiencing the German Autobahn in WW2 during his experience as General.
GYGrN TIL that the COO of Riot Games (League of Legends) was suspended for farting in people's faces and tapping their balls in the office.
N0D8 TIL Russian cruise missiles form p2p networks, hunt in packs and elect an Alpha to lead them. Oh and they’re 40 years old and still in use.
pYZ4 TIL that after examining deforested areas of the Amazon rainforest, archaeologists discovered that ancient Amazon Indians had carved massive, flawlessly designed geometric shapes into the ground. They are several hundred yards in diameter.
p8RKe TIL of Redoshi, a woman believed to have been the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. She was captured in 1860 in West Africa at age 12 and worked on a plantation in Alabama. She died in 1937 and lived long enough to become acquainted with people active in the civil rights movement.