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TIL that back in 1994, Chinese arms smugglers with ties to major manufacturers tried to sell AK-47s and even heavier weaponry to U.S. street gangs

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jAwn TIL: Mexico City is sinking as much as 15 inches a year!
pY6WG TIL in 1965 part of the training to be Special Forces Medic in Vietnam included the Dog Lab at Fort Bragg where they had to shoot a Dog (The Patient) with a .22 (in the thigh) and then successfully treat the wound
66nW TIL that bared breasts were a sign of mourning in ancient Egypt and Greece.
jNvDX TIL that 3 years after his death in 1658, Oliver Cromwell's enbalmed body was exhumed and executed. His head was mounted on a spike on Westminster Hall for 25 years until a storm blew it down. A guard found it and took it home. It was then in private possession until being secretly buried in 1960.
dD9eZ TIL Ford did not have to be rescued during the 2008 financial crisis like the two other major American auto companies, Chrysler and GM