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TIL that after a major earthquake in Japan the Mafia sent major relief before the Government

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b6L84 TIL of Gondal, a world building project by Emily Bronte (writter of Wuthering Heights) with her sister Anne, mostly because they got sick of their older siblings, Branwell and Charlotte, kept dominating their previous world building game, the Glasstown Confederacy
OGQre TIL Ford actually didn't invent the first combustion engine car. Benz Patent-Motorwagen did in 1886 almost 30 years before Ford releases the Model T.
E1vMW TIL about Marie Pantalon. A French woman in 1850 that decided to become a Gold Digger. She pretended to be a man to get to California, worked like any man, wielded a gun to defend her claims, and dressed in pants, unthinkable at the time, eventually obtained official permission to wear the pants.
WLpB TIL that the violent crime rate in the US has dropped dramatically in the last few decades, yet the majority of Americans think it’s increasing.
0w8Ep TIL of Chartreuse, a storied French liqueur with a recipe that dates back to the early 1600s. The recipe originated in an old alchemical textbook presented to an order of monks by an artillery marshal of the French army. The original order of monks retains brewing rights to this day.