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TIL in 1976 Cleveland became the bombing capitol of America due to organized crime members bombing each other

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7rNWx TIL Grindadráp is a tradition of the Faroe Isalands. in Denmark, were they slaughtered 1,000 long-finned pilot whales a year.
JYeo1 TIL Nearly 70% of icelanders has costco membership and there's only one costco in the country
rRp94 TIL of the Noonday Gun - a daily tradition, that has its roots in the grand ambitions and megalomania of the first Tai-pans of the Jardines-Matheson company
l7EBK TIL during visit to a state built flat in communist Poland Picasso spontaneously drew a painting on a wall of some random folks living room It was painted over in 1953 by a couple who lived there and couldn’t handle hundreds of strangers wanting to come in and stare at their wall.
wL4O8 TIL that Merian C. Cooper, director of the original King Kong, led the Kościuszko Squadron (a 21-American volunteer air force) in battle against the Soviet 1st Cavalry Army, saving the city of Lwów and stopping the spread of communism throughout Europe.