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TIL that the Crips street gang was formed with the purpose of eliminating other street gangs and forming a neighborhood watch.

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wgm1 TIL a man kayaked from Germany to Australia between 1932-1939 only to arrive and be detained as a POW due to the outbreak of WW2
lEYG TIL that if you donate your kidney without specifying a recipient, you can start a domino donation chain getting thousands of people new matching kidneys.
paWG TIL Ringo Starr was reluctant to accept the role of the narrator on “Thomas & Friends” because he thought kids would be more interested in “dinosaurs with lasers.”
6Rm TIL, it’s possible for a fighter jet to travel so fast that it overcomes it’s own bullets and shoots itself down.
6Oyl TIL There was an abandoned Russian Cruise ship that refused to die, was left to float around the oceans, and may have sunk in 2013, but nobody knows for sure.