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TIL most mass shootings in the U.S. occur in ‘Gun Free Zones’

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Wg8L TIL that ISIS bans use of tobacco, alcohol, music, showing skin of women (& mannequins), yet willfully condone the rape of non-Muslim captive women and torture/execution of non-believers.
v1WEx TIL that - led by two grandsons of Genghis Khan - the Mongol army invaded nearly half of Europe. Had the ruling Khan not drunkenly died on a hunting trip, they could have taken the entire continent.
W7arA TIL the first Nepalese woman to summit Mt Everest was Pasang Lhamu, in 1993 at age 31. She died on the same day during the descent and became a national icon.
jNwbX TIL that a 1700 year old baobab tree in Modjadjiskloof, South Africa had a 15-person full bar inside its 155 foot wide trunk called the Big Baobab Tree Bar. The bar closed and the tree eventually fell over in 2017.
W7AlA TIL an audit at the University of North Carolina found that one of its most reliable servers had been walled off for 4+ years without anyone even noticing