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TIL Rio residents rely on an app called "fogo cruzado" (Cross fire) to keep track of all gun battles happening in the city any given day in order to avoid them.

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KOrnE TIL King Tut's Mother is his Father's Sister
jN91a TIL that the finding of a 1,600 year old bog body in England was confused for the body of a woman who disappeared under suspicious circumstances in the 1960s. This caused her ex husband to confess to murdering her. After analysis revealed the body's age, he attempted to recant, but was still jailed.
R5dn8 TIL the largest gallstone ever record was 13lbs 4oz
VBnZp TIL the term "teamster", which is used today to describe truck drivers, was originally used described a person who drove team of oxen or horses, which were the trucks of their day.
R5vg1 TIL Switzerland constitutionally banned all monasteries and the Jesuits until 1973