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TIL that a Cirrus SR20 aircraft crashed into the Belaire Apartments in New York City on 2006

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BrExd TIL Cherokee Native Americans began purchasing African slaves in the 1800s to labor on European style plantations and in mines. By the time of the civil war they owned over 8000 slaves who made up 14% of the population in the Cherokee territory.
xVkZg TIL that the classification of “First World” initially had nothing to do with standard of living or GDP. The terms 1st, 2nd, and 3rd world were devised at the onset of the Cold War to describe nations that were either aligned to NATO (1st), aligned to the USSR (2nd), or non-aligned to either (3rd).
yXGX TIL in 2011, Florida changed its yellow light intervals to below federal recommendations in a deliberate attempt to increase red light tickets.
M7YWW TIL The largest private library in France belongs to anti-liberalism philosopher Alain de Benoist.
GRb1 TIL Perdro López, who confessed to raping and killing more than 300 young girls, only served 16 years in prison. He walks free today, and his current whereabouts are unknown.