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TIL that illegal immigration from Mexico to the U.S. has decreased by 80% since 2000

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8WmZ TIL President John Quincy Adams owned an aligator which he kept in the White House
ogxY TIL octopi are known to sneak onboard fishing boats, open holds, and eat the crabs used as bait.
gMmg9 TIL Korean college students once protested against the amount of air in potato chip packets by building a raft out of them and sailing across a river.
N7Be6 TIL of Charondas, a Greek lawgiver from Sicily, that issued a law that anyone who brought weapons into the Assembly must be put to death. One day, he arrived at the Assembly after hunting in the countryside with a knife still attached to his belt. In order to uphold his own law, he committed suicide
6E85W TIL that on the 2nd April 2014 a bomb exploded in the bombers face because of daylight saving time