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TIL: In 1930, a group of white Southern church ladies called bullsh-- on lynching, forming the Assoc. of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. They were pretty effective! I learned it from Lillian Smith's 'Killers of the Dream' (1949), but here's an article...

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176X TIL that some ants abduct different breeds of ants to keep them as slaves. Those slaves occasionally rebel, sabotage their masters hives and kill their offspring. Behold the Spartacants.
W7veo TIL the 1983 film "Taking Tiger Mountain" was based on William S. Burroughs' 1979 novel "Blade Runner: a Movie," which was originally a film treatment for Alan E. Nourse's 1973 novel "The Bladerunner" (the title of which was used for the otherwise unrelated 1982 film "Blade Runner").
kJ5xm TIL you can't cut your finger off with a rock saw because it's not a separated blade
9YJEX TIL In 2010, a thief broke into the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris and stole five paintings worth €100 million ( $123 million USD). Pierre Cornette de Saint-Cyr, commented, "These five paintings are unsellable, so thieves, sirs, you are imbeciles, now return them." The art has not been recovered.
ye1X TIL: The word “shenanigans” is derived from the Irish expression, “sionnachuighim,” or-“I play the fox.”