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TIL: million dollar fancy houses in Mesa de Yeguas (colombia) do not have windows or walls as temperature is perfect and are not needed.

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4516 TIL: There was a “Deaf Zone” created at Grateful Dead concerts where deaf patrons held onto inflated balloons to feel the vibration of the music.
EpNp TIL on 2007 a student was arrested and expelled, from a Fort Bend, TX high school, for creating a Counter Strike map of his school.
e5v5 TIL a third-grade girl was expelled for a year because her grandmother had sent a birthday cake to school along with a knife to cut it. The teacher used the knife to cut the cake, and then reported the girl to the authorities as having a dangerous weapon.
WkYNL TIL that an elephant learnt from its mates about a sanctuary, and when poachers injured him, he used this second-hand knowledge to seek help from humans in the sanctuary
jNm8X TIL of the Hatfield-McCoy family feud, one of the most famous in America. Both families were Confederates, but one of the McCoys fought for the Union. While returning home from the war, he was murdered by a Confederate militia with the prime suspect being a Hatfield.