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TIL: A man installed a Buddha statue in his crime ridden neighborhood and overall crime dropped 82%.

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YpPYP TIL William Goldman, writer of 'The Princess Bride', wrote the screenplay for his two daughters, who were 7 and 4 at the time. He asked them what they wanted to be in the story, with one saying a princess and one being a bride. He told them "That'll be the title."
g6YD TIL that President Wilson actually VETO'ed the Volstead Act but congress passed it anyway bringing on the beginning of Prohibition.
WaMo TIL that rap battles existed long before. “Flyting” was an insult battle practiced even in Medieval England’s courts.
e0d96 TIL USPS Trucks are 30 years old
VB69p TIL cells contain a protein machine, called the proteasome, which takes misfolded proteins that can't be refolded and breaks them into smaller subunits. It is part of a system called the ubiquitin–proteasome, where ubiquitins detects the misfolded proteins and sends them to the proteasome.