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TIL: Until it was torn down in 1992, there was an Anarchic, lawless city in China, with 50,000 people living in the area of several city blocks.

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8egRZ TIL "pouring one out for the homies" is an ancient tradition that dates back to 2500 BC
XE1aR TIL that a National Gang Threat Assessment report conducted by the FBI in 2011 classified Juggalos as a “loosely-organized hybrid gang.” This allowed law enforcement to pull over anyone driving a car sporting Juggalo-related paraphernalia without any other cause.
7rvWr TIL Coca-Cola didn’t become completely cocaine-free until 1929.
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ROrQ TIL of astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil who in 1760 went from France to India to measure the transit of Venus. He missed out on both chances to do so, contracted dysentery and nearly went insane. When he made it home he learned he had been declared dead, his wife remarried and his estate plundered