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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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WkWl4 TIL the concept of private property was unknown to ancient Hawaiians. Instead they had "ahupua'a", a belief system that connected spirituality into the natural landscape. It emphasized the interrelationship of elements and beings and honored them in the activities of daily and seasonal life.
gr74L TIL That women in the Etruscan society had a much higher social status than their counterparts in ancient Greece and Rome.
oB1GR TIL that Thomas Alva Edison did not invent the light bulb; electric light sources were being experimented since early 1800s and an English Physicist Sir Joseph Swan had a working prototype of electric incandescent light bulb more than a decade earlier than Edison.
4JaX TIL More than 60 percent of people in the US who die from guns die by suicide
Z8d9p TIL that Frida Kahlo grew up during a revolution, and the nationalism that followed would inspire her art.