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TIL A group of High School student from Coronado Ca became the West Costs largest drug smuggling operation in the 70’s and 80’s with the help of their High School Spanish teacher.

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d8ryB TIL that the MRI of dogs’ brains show that they see their owners as family and prioritize the smell of humans over everything
dDmOZ TIL how human started to celebrate New Year. The earliest recorded festivities date back 4,000 years to ancient Babylon. Later Caesar instituted January 1st as the first day of the year to honor Janus, the Roman god of beginnings.
4kvnR TIL in Shanghai every weekend there is a marriage market, parents and grandparents of unmarried adults gather in a park and trade information on their children/grandchildren (height, weight, income, occupation...) with the goal to find them a suitable partner.
Yp9BB TIL the Pony Express was only active for a year and a half. When business ended, they lost over $200,000, which is equivalent to over $6,000,000 in todays standard.
EnA7 TIL that during WWII, 4 Koreans were conscripted into the Japanese army, to be taken prisoner and conscripted into the Soviet army, later to be taken prisoner and conscripted into the German army- finally being taken as prisoners of war by the American army.