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TIL it is estimated that the Mexico drug cartels makes $152 million a year from growing and selling avocados

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BraoL TIL American founding father Alexander Hamilton expressed fears regarding the use of pure direct democracy by the majority to elect a demagogue who, rather than work for the benefit of all citizens, set out to either harm those in the minority or work only for those of the upper echelon.
JYKGB TIL that the alphabet (the Latin alphabet) derived from the Etruscan alphabet, which came from the Greek alphabet, which came from the Phoenician alphabet, which came from another early alphabet, which was based on Egyptian hieroglyphics
RM0Q TIL the prime minister of Somalia from 2010 to 2011 was a Somalian-American man who worked and continues to work at the Buffalo, New York Department of Transportation
OK9R TIL zoo keepers in England had to learn French in order to speak to baboons coming from a french zoo, because the animals didn’t respond to english commands.
6EpgW TIL that Michelangelo's statue of David is supposed to be the biblical figure of David, from David and Goliath. He can be seen holding a stone and a sling.