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TIL about the Suffragette bombing and arson campaign

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neevd TIL Jimmy Kimmel's sidekick Guillermo rose to fame while working as a parking lot security guard at the Hollywood Boulevard studios for Jimmy Kimmel Live.
J1dBj TIL that in sociology, there's the notion of the "third place". The 1st place is your home. The 2nd place is your workplace and the 3rd place refers to the social surroundings that are separate from the two usual social environments of home ("first place") and the workplace ("second place").
oBVW TIL Real estate agents used a business practice called “Blockbusting” in which they would buy a home in a white neighborhood, rent it to a black family, and buy the rest of the neighborhood at a discounted price after urging nervous white families to leave the neighborhood.
e0EkD TIL That Those Cremation Diamond Businesses Are Scams. There Isn’t Enough Carbon in One Body to Create Even the Tiniest Diamond.
MeAZ7 TIL about the Dyatlov Pass incident where in 1959, 9 experienced hikers mysteriously died in the freezing Ural Mountains after fleeing their tent. Most were in their underwear, 1 had a fractured skull, another had tongue and eyes missing. Circumstances remain a mystery to this day.