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TIL There is a all women vigilanty group in India called the Gulabi Gang that hunt down men who commit crimes against women.

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x64Oo TIL Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital
904Q TIL that If you could hold your mother’s hand and she could hold her mother’s hand and so on and so forth, all standing in a straight line, the point where we have a common ancestor with chimpanzees would be only 300 miles away.
ynbV TIL Tennessee has an “Unauthorized Substances Tax” which requires “merchants or peddlers” of illicit substances to buy stamps to affix to illegal substances that they sell. Oh and don’t worry, buying the stamps is completely confidential and legally cannot be used as evidence in court.
x4dD TIL a 4chan prank resulted in VH1’s Save the Music program donating $10,000 to buy musical instruments for Boston’s Horace Mann School for the Deaf.
GYwp4 TIL when Paul McCartney was recording the album Ram, he brought in some of the cooperating musicians under the guise of conducting a session to record a commercial jingle.