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TIL that Atlanta rapper T.I. has opened an affordable housing development, turning a former shopping center into 143 apartments, including 25 units for homeless youth

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wLN76 TIL about The Chicago Ripper Crew, a satanic cult and organized crime group operating in the early 80's. It's 4 members abducted, tortured and mutilated 18 women, amputating their breasts with a wire garrote to cannibalize as part of a satanic sacrament.
OGO4X TIL that in 2017 and 2018, three academics submitted hoax articles, among them a Mein Kampf Passage rewritten with feminist lingo, into Gender and Race research journals in order to expose corruption in the field they called "grievance studies" They got away with it until their public reveal in 2018
6ELWm TIL that in 2006, dozens of wives and girlfriends of gang members from Pereira Columbia started a “no sex” strike to force gang members to turn in their weapons with the goal of curbing gang violence. In 2010, the city’s murder rate saw the steepest decline in Colombia, down by 26.5%.
mxP9x TIL Admiral J.Stockdale was shot down in Vietnam and held prisoner for 7,5 years, 4 of them in solitary. He endured captivity by drawing inspiration from Epictetus, a stoic and former slave who who shrugged off even his own state of slavery as a natural inconvenience that should not concern him
1aEbP TIL in 1986, Run DMC released the hip hop song "My Adidas", leading to the first endorsement deal between a musical act and an athletic company.