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TIL,The son of drug trafficker El Chapo,denied in a hearing where he was formally notified of the U.S. extradition request,that he is the boss's son. He is considered the leader of the Sinaloa cartel's production and export of fentanyl.He faces a life sentence if extradited and imprisoned in the US

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JkOj TIL that so many American Indians joined the military during WW2 that had all Americans joined at the same proportion, conscription would not have been necessary. The Blackfeet tribe mocked the idea of a draft: “Since when has it been necessary for Blackfeet to draw lots to fight?”
epZDb TIL In the Eagles song “Take It Easy” the real corner with a flatbed Ford was in Flagstaff, Arizona, not Winslow
YpBlZ TIL that stroke victims with partial facial paralysis can lose the ability to voluntarily smile on half their face, but can still fully smile when laughing at a joke.
VxX4 TIL that when Henry Ford explained his idea of a gasoline powered car to Thomas Edison, Edison encouraged Ford that he “had it”. Ford claimed later that “No man up to then had given me any encouragement”.
rRKn0 TIL as a result of seeing the athrocities of forced collectivisation in the USSR, including famines and between 6 and 7 million deaths, Joseph Stalin's wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva committed suicide.