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TIL I learned French tacos are a thing. Flour tortilla, meat/protein, fries, sauce, and other things.

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mxE6P TIL An 8 months Pregnant Mary Turner protested the lynching of her innocent husband Hayes Turner by a White mob in 1918 and threatened to have them arrested. In order to “teach her a lesson”, she and her unborn child were brutally murdered. No one was charged.
nY0G TIL The so called GTA gang killed 17 motorists between 2013 and 2014. It operated by stopping random cars at night on Moscow highways and then shooting dead its passengers at point-blank range for no apparent reason.
D1R4D TIL of the Sky Burial. Utilized in areas such Tibet and Mongolia, corpses are left on mountainsides to be eaten by carrion birds or otherwise decompose. Many who practice it view it as more practical than digging graves and as a way to give back to nature
LQ1Rr TIL Dachshund (sausage dogs) were specifically bred to hunt European badgers and spent hours underground, facing the badger straight on and dragging it out by the face.
b9Rb4 TIL that Internet and dial-up Email were being used by ordinary people as early as 1984. Slow adoption was the challenge, not technology.