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Today I learned the shortest war in history lasted just 38 to 45 minutes.

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4XWEw TIL about The Hole, New York City, a small and low lying neighbourhood that is very (very) run down and suffers from frequent flooding. The mafia used to dispose of bodies there.
rgGw TIL that the children’s menu was created during prohibition as a result of restaurants attempting to offset the losses from going “dry”.
gVMW TIL in 2008, Plainclothes cops jumped out of a van, snatched up a 12-year-old girl, and beat her during a prostitution raid. After discovering that they had the wrong house, they charged her with assaulting a public official.
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PvQO TIL I learned that Bob Marley once said “The people who are trying to make this world worse aren’t taking a day off. How can I?” after armed gunmen attacked his home two days before giving a free concert called “Smile Jamaica”