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TIL there has been more human casualties in the Mexican Narcotics wars than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

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njrG TIL At the peak of its popularity, Farmville players outnumbered real farmers 60 to 1.
WVrN TIL- That Ben and Jerry’s used to have a policy that no employee could make more than five times what the lowest paid worker was paid.
RvYa TIL In Old English, ‘man’ was a gender neutral term. Males were known as 'wermen’ and females were known as 'wifmen’.
r0VM TIL that the Los Zetas cartel was formed by a group of commando’s who defected from the Mexican army in the late 1990s. It is considered by the U.S. government to be the “most technologically advanced, sophisticated, and dangerous cartel operating in Mexico.”
5Rb9 TIL Cahokia was the largest city in North America prior to the arrival of Columbus. It rivaled London at the time, and was only surpassed in the 1780’s.