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TIL a perpetual stew was maintained in Perpignan from the 15th century until World War II

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NXA8N TIL in 2015 a plane crashed into the home of the neighbors of Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney in Plainville, Massachusetts. Three people died in the crash.
b6DXa TIL gangster Meyer Lansky and his associates including Lucky Luciano used their power to break up American Bund rallies
AD87n TIL that there is a cancer called Acral Melanoma that is common in dark skinned people, but isn’t caused by sun exposure. It forms in innocuous places like under the toenail - this was what caused the death of Bob Marley
N7vgM TIL of the ecocide at Chaco Canyon. When the Anasazis arrived at Chaco Canyon, it was a dense woodlands, but after years of deforestation, harmful farming practices, and finally a drought, the area is now a desert. Occupation there only lasted around 200 years.
Z88n4 Short answer: It's an adorable means of self-protection.