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TIL Indo-Canadian organized crime groups (of Indian origin) are the third major homegrown organized crime problem in Canada, next to outlaw motorcycle clubs and Native American criminal organizations.

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VMYem TIL in 1977 Pradyumna Kumar Mahanandia, a poor Indian artist, rode a second-hand bicycle for 4 weeks and 3 days from New Delhi to Gothenburg in Sweden to meet his love Charlotte Von Schedvin because he didn’t have enough money. They married and have 2 children.
PYWrn TIL a New Jersey man bought a $5 bottle of orange juice from Shoprite; his wife said it was too expensive and sent him back to return it, because it was on sale for $2.50 elsewhere. He then decided to buy 2 lottery tickets with the cash refunded from the OJ; he won $315.3 million.
dDMYB TIL that the labels on Angostura bitters bottles are intentionally annoying. The original brothers entered a competition and due to a miscommunication, wound up with wrong size labels. A friendly judge suggested the brothers make that label their signature. The advice stuck.
gGE9 TIL that Australian Funnel-Web spider fangs can penetrate fingernails and shoes
VM1P4 TIL that Japanese socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma was assassinated in 1960 with a katana on live television.