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TIL Chicago based street gangs such as the vice lords and gangster disciples recruited many native Americans into their gangs

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xKW1 TIL that as part of their family’s settlement with a gas company, a 7-year-old and a 10-year-old are banned from talking about fracking for the rest of their lives.
b6k47 TIL Ernesto Miranda, namesake of the Miranda warning, was murdered and the person suspected of killing him invoked his Miranda rights and was never charged
5YmjB TIL 72 Chinese billionaires died between 2003 and 2011. 15 were murdered, 17 committed suicide, 7 died from accidents, 14 were executed according to the law, and 19 died from diseases.
jNQlv TIL that Evel Knieval’s last leap in the Spotlight was a jaws-inspired gimmick that would help spawn the phrase “jumping the shark,” implying that somebody’s or something’s best days are behind them.
Brk1r TIL Child prodigy Edmund Thomas Clint died at age 6 but still drawn over 25,000 paintings during his life.