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TIL that all SI base units of measurement are written in lowercase, except for those named after people, Kelvin and Ampere

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1aQrW TIL that the Mexican government sent around 500 of it's elite soldiers to be trained as commandos at Ft. Bragg(USA), in order to better combat the rising drug violence in the country. After training, many of the soldiers returned to Mexico, only to start the brutally violent drug cartel: Los Zetas.
Okl1 TIL when reporter Jerry Mitchell went to a screening of a movie about the murder of civil rights workers in the 60s, he wondered why the suspects weren’t tried for murder. He investigated the case and discovered evidence which helped convict one of the participants for murder in 2005.
v100K TIL that there was a proposed state called West Kansas that would have consisted of nine southwestern Kansan counties.
vPNp7 TIL that Coronals on the sun carry electric currents
69Aom TIL Carlos Santana is anti-trans