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TIL that dozens of indigenous women have gone missing in and around the Yakama Reservation in Yakima, Washington, USA. Some have been found dead, and most cases are unsolved.

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69vNl TIL when deciding what to name the town during a meeting, the residents got so frustrated with everyone saying "why not this" and "why not that," they just named the town, "Whynot," North Carolina, so they could all go home.
oLxW TIL Paraguay’s first dictator, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, forbade colonial citizens from marrying one another and allowed them to marry only blacks, mulattoes or natives, in order to break the power of colonial-era elites and to create a mixed-race or mestizo society.
neMYd TIL that Keanu Reeves is determined to not let his tragic life deter him from helping society and that he secretly funds Children’s Hospitals, cancer research, and much more
PYXYg TIL it's not actually illegal to drive barefoot. In many countries including the UK, US and Canada it's fine as long as you have the ability to operate the controls safely.
wLjvM TIL that despite being studied since its discovery in 1906, scientists have yet to rule out a germ origin for Alzheimer's disease. The infectious hypothesis could explain why neurosurgeons are twice and a half more likely to die from it than the general population.