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TIL there is a place in California named "Slab City" where squatters and artists live with no laws, no water, and no electricity. It is called, "The Last Free Place in America".

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R57x1 TIL of "Pad Man" Arunachalam Muruganantham who devised a way to cheaply manufacture menstrual pads for poor regions
R5Rj4 TIL about the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut. The daughter of Thutmose I and his first wife, she married her half-brother, Thutmose II, and was his first wife. When Thutmose II died, she became regent for the baby Thutmose III, her husband's heir by another wife. She ruled 22 years until her death.
6EprY TIL that the most skilled sniper in all of World War I was a Canadian Indigenous man, Francis Pegahmagabow. He had 378 confirmed kills, captured over 300 enemy soldiers, and spent his post-war life fighting for Indigenous rights. He remains the most decorated Indigenous soldier in Canadian history.
yQ8lw TIL In 1924, the Ku Klux Klan got four of its members elected to Anaheim, California's five-member board of trustees, giving them control of city government. When the Klan's plan was exposed, their representatives were successfully recalled in a special election the following year.
p8Xae TIL Clark Gable went to the hospital and was diagnosed to having suffered from a heart attack. He was improving but had a second heart attack that night from an infection in his heart and medical staff did not perform CPR for fear that it would rupture his heart and a defibrillator was not available