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TIL that Mongols OMC was founded by Hispanic Vietnam war veterans who weren't allowed to join the Hells Angels, which only had white members at the time.

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R57Ya TIL of John Graham, who hated his mother so much he hid 25 sticks of dynamite and a timed detonator in her suitcase before a flight. It was one of the first ever attacks of a commercial flight; all 44 aboard died.
RrOl TIL there is a hotel that has been open for business for the past 1,308 years
rRl84 TIL that the "Wednesday Demonstration" in Korea is the world's oldest rally on a single theme. Every Wednesday since 1992, former victims of Imperial Japan's large scale sexual slavery system has been organizing a rally in front of the Japanese embassy, requesting a sincere apology from Japan.
woKVW TIL the oldest European building in Australia was a fort constructed by Wiebbe Hayes and his soldiers in 1629 after being marooned following a mutiny. The mutineers hoped they would die, but they actually managed to survive while fending off three separate attacks by the mutineers.
b9DGZ TIL of Long-Term Capital Management, that was worth $1.25 trillion and took 14 banks to bail out 1998