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TIL in 1946 citizens ended corruption in their small Tennessee town by stealing guns from a National Guard armory, surrounding 50 cops in the town jail, and wounding dozens of officers with bullets and dynamite.

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ePb6 TIL that Israeli secret service, the Mossad, hatched a plan in the 1950s to bomb areas in Egypt where Americans gathered, and make these attacks appear to be the work of Muslim extremists. The plot was discovered and it’s known as ‘The Lavon Affair’.
GXJg TIL there was a Tea Party group boycotting Fox News last year for becoming ‘too liberal’
J1OV4 TIL that the first electric car was developed in 1832 and become practica in the 1870s
4k1B6 TIL that the British Pound is the world’s oldest currency still in use at 1,200 years old. The pound has been an identity as a symbol of British sovereignty.
1Go7 TIL there is a chair made specifically for having sex on.