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TIL Humans Are Currently Causing The Sixth Mass Extinction

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DQxDr TIL in 1993, in order to reduce the media attention and law enforcement pressure brought on by drive-by shootings, the Mexican Mafia prison gang in California declared they would kill any gang member sent to prison for a drive-by.
KYOm6 TIL the first known (partly successful) separation of conjoined twins was in 10th century Byzantium
6jpw TIL In 1939, the famous and notorious gangster, Al Capone donated two Japanese weeping cherry trees to the former Union Memorial Hospital in return for the excellent treatment and care he was offered and one of the trees still remains and blossoms outside the East 33rd Street entrance each spring.
R5r7a TIL Willow Creek, California is known as " Bigfoot Capital of the World" and has a Bigfoot Museum housing 30 plaster cast footprints, including one measuring 16 inches. It is close to Bluff Creek, where the famous Patterson Gimlin Bigfoot footage was filmed
jN0MQ TIL that one teaspoon full of neutron star material weighs over 6 BILLION tons.