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TIL there's a 12% increase in the risk of fatal automobile accidents at 4:20 pm on 4/20.

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gJ79 TIL Muhammad Suharto the former President of Indonesia is considered the worlds most corrupt head of state due to embezzling between $15-35 billion during his 32-year presidency
E1Z0p TIL the avocado industry in Mexico is so big that the Mexican cartel for years took over farms through extortion. But the city of Tancítaro, the world capital of avocado production, took back their farms back by arming their citizens, building their own police, and bulletproofing their trucks.
jNlnR TIL Carousels were first invented for training knights in jousting with wooden horses and try to hit targets as they spin
aay9 TIL that the world’s first programmers were women, a fact that took 50 years to be recognised.
p8aYG TIL Murder rates in Miami, Florida were so high during the 1970s and 1980s that the Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office had to rent a refrigerated trailer from Burger King to handle the overflow of corpses