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TIL about “The Compton Cowboys” a group of young African-American men that have found peace and turned their backs on gang violence through the care and riding of horses in urban Los Angeles

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jkZp TIL that Chile has a town in Antarctica, complete with a school, hospital, hostel, post office, internet, TV and cell phone coverage.
XEDm8 TIL Moore's Law states the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles every 2ys, however, it's balanced out by Binn's Law, which states: As technology advances, rendering time remains constant. Because the more machines are capable of, the more we throw at them.
JMDQ TIL When Tupac Shakur misbehaved as a child, his mother Afeni would make her son read The New York Times as punishment.
EVvW TIL that due to having similar names, the staff of the Slovak and Slovenian embassies meet at least once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mail
wLMd6 TIL The close-up shots in cartoons that detail how gross something is about a situation or character is called dubbbed, gross-ups, specificity in the Ren and Stimpy cartoon.