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TIL that in 1935, New York City Mayor, Fiorello Laguardia, brought down a Mafia crime ring by banning baby artichokes for three days.

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7rZyX TIL That, of 195 countries on earth, England has invaded 177 of them.
mxojo TIL sugar can be dangerously explosive. In 2008, 14 people died and 40 were injured when sugar dust combusted at Imperial Sugar's refinery in Georgia. A U.S. Chemical Safety Board report found the explosion was entirely preventable. The sugar industry has been aware of explosion risks since 1926.
mxw0x TIL about the Singing Revolution which was a series of events between 1987 and 1991 in the Baltic States which incorporated the singing of patriotic songs as a method of protest against the Soviet Union. These events would ultimately result in the Baltic State gaining their independence.
mxlnx TIL that while the moon’s diameter is 400 times less than that of the sun, it’s also about 400 times closer to earth. That’s why solar eclipses happen to work out so well on earth.
b6BWp TIL: Nazi doctor Josef Mengele's bones used in Brazil forensic medicine courses