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TIL 98.5% of crimes in Mexico go unpunished.

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wZ5P TIL after WW1 the French had the railway cars that Germany surrender in stored in a museum. During WW2 when France was preparing to surrender, Hitler ordered the walls of museum torn down and the railway cars returned to the exact spot of the 1918 armistice in order to humiliate the French.
X0r6r TIL that in 2012 cheese was the most shoplifted item from supermarkets.
LkbOp TIL 20-yr-old Ahmed Alwan gives customers free stuff (with approval from his father) from his family's Bronx bodega if they can solve a simple math problem . For example, he'll say: "What's 9 x 9 - 5?" and then you get 5 seconds to grab anything from chips to speakers to hookahs.
vP457 TIL: Domino's Pizza's famous "30 minutes or less" guarantee only ran for 9 years, from 1984 to 1993, but it had a tremendous impact on popular culture.
696BW TIL I learned early Alabamians really loved their 'cola'.