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TIL about The Ugly Americans a large street gang and organized crime group based in Cape Flats area of Cape Town. The Americans is corporate body for many smaller gangs in Cape Town.

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NkkQ TIL: 4chan created a feminist programming language called C Plus Equality. Some changes include renaming of “class” to “social_construct”, and the prohibition of “y” variables.
Xwoj TIL the British East India Company arrested hundreds of local weavers and had their thumbs chopped off in order to destroy Begal’s weaving industry in 1834.
WkK74 TIL that dogs can detect oncoming seizures/epileptic fits by smelling the odour molecules released by the human body before a seizure/fit occurs
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