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TIL Louisiana’s coastline is disappearing at the rate of a football field AN HOUR

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6EGLY TIL 7 years after the Republic was established, Mao Zedong allowed people to express their opinions on the way the country was being run in a campaign called the Hundred Flowers Campaign. Once this happened,those who said things against the government who were then jailed or unheard of since.
Zp8Vv TIL In 1965 the Hells Angels motorcycle gang refused to take part in an anti-Vietnam war rally in Oakland, CA and actually wrote to President Johnson offering to serve there as a "crack group of trained guerillas."
n5aP TIL That the last two speakers of a dying Mexican language, Ayapaneco, refused to speak to each other because they didn’t like each other
mmrO TIL in India pre-pubescent girls from lower (untouchable) castes are dedicated to a life of prostitution through a religious sex trade system.
k8dB TIL that the oldest living person in the world smoked cigarettes from ages 21-117. She lived to be 122.