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TIL of Operation Choke Point. The Justice Department unfairly targets Porn Companies, Gun Dealers, and other legal businesses it doesn’t like and pressures banks not to do business with them

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W7krA TIL that after the failed Paris Commune in 1871, many of its supporters were exiled to the French dependency New Caledonia in the Pacific. The majority of them were eventually granted amnesty by president Adolfe Thiers in 1879, and allowed to return to France.
VBYRD TIL There is a sushi chef in Tokyo that makes individual pieces of sushi with a single grain of rice
R5Me7 TIL Ancient Human populations living in the Indian subcontinent had a taller average height than modern humans living in the wealthiest developed countries
yVlN8 TIL Smart & Final grocery stores were founded by Mr. Jim Smart and Mr. Hildane Final
8a4XV TIL that a tribe on an island in the Pacific worships Prince Philip as a divine being