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TIL gangster Meyer Lansky and his associates including Lucky Luciano used their power to break up American Bund rallies

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wLEwP TIL there is still between 8,000-25,000 Jews living in Iran with their own private schools and freedom of religion
rNRw0 TIL that before exponential notation was invented, mathematicians used words to represent exponents. For instance, 2^8 had the name Zenzizenzizenzic, the word with the most Z's in the English language, which means "square of squares squaredly".
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