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TIL Nine of the ten of the cities with the highest homicide rate per capita are in Mexico

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GY8a1 TIL of the Republic of Pirates, a Caribbean state that lasted for 12 years under the governance of a pirate code.
eppNL TIL Movie theaters in Iceland, Switzerland, Egypt, Turkey and India have an intermission in the middle of the movie. It lasts around 10 minutes, which allows customers to hit the concession stalls or use the restroom
ZBkp TIL On August 1st each year the people of Warsaw, Poland stop everything to pay homage to the Warsaw Uprising the largest rebellion of WWII. Which cost cost over 200,000 lives and destruction of the capital.
e0WnL TIL A fitness tracking app gave away the locations of secret US army bases. The company released 3 trillion GPS data points to help people find popular running routes in major cities, however it was detailed enough to give away sensitive information of users on active military service.
69EKQ TIL the characters of Gilligan's Island successfully made it off the island in TV film, only to get stranded on the same island a year later; and then get rescued again in a second TV film