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TIL That the first female crime boss in the US had a gang of kids to do her bidding

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P145n TIL Lalla Fatma N'Soumer was an Algerian resistance fighter & leader who fought many battles against the colonizing French. The french called her 'Joan of Arc of Algeria'. She was later captured and died while in prison aged 32. She is an Algerian national hero & a symbol for women's empowerment.
6vEl TIL law enforcement and the entire concept of a ‘police force’ is a very new historical concept. Outside of private guards and community vigilantism, policing did not even exist until 1707 in Great Britain - and it was 1829 before police were established in London.
ADnGl TIL Peter Mills, the last surviving American slave, died in 1972 at the age of 110
jNVKj TIL undercover police posing as drug buyers were arrested by undercover police posing as drug dealers
jyOp TIL The United States first space station, Skylab crashed in Australia. The county where it crashed fined NASA $400 for littering. NASA never paid the ticket.