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TIL a new trend has emerged in Bangkok where young Thai men are identifying as “Mexican gangsters” and sporting the clothes, tattoos, and hairstyles of the eses that inspire them

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bbm0 TIL that the words ‘under God’ were added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 in response to the Communist threat of the times.
16VL8 TIL, in 1981 a group of American and Canadian citizens plotted to overthrow the government of Dominica with the aim of reinstalling it's former Prime Minister. The plotters were caught and imprisoned, including the former PM.
yRw8 TIL that the Japanese dub of “transformers: Beast Wars” changed female Airazor to male, which resulted in the dub having the franchise’s first gay romance when the English production had Airazor involved with a male character
1lvO TIL you can kill a tree just by removing a ring of bark on the main trunk.
mjpO TIL that Bill Shepherd, first US Navy SEAL that became a NASA Astronaut and first commander of the ISS, was asked what he does best in his astronaut candidate interview. He answered: “Kill people with a knife”