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TIL There is a man in Georgia being sentenced to 10 years in prison and banishment from the state for defending himself from 5+ attackers in a hate crime.

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x67N1 TIL about the kingdom of Albania, a state located in the Caucasus in ancient times
79wr TIL that in 2011, Portland Oregon discarded 7.8 MILLION GALLONS of drinking water because a man urinated into the reservoir.
0wrA5 TIL The US Senate still uses a page system. A system where it employs underage boys to run around delivering messages. It even has its own special school the boys, so they can be free to work.
Oane TIL In 2002 a 15 year old boy inspired by 9/11, stole an airplane and flew it into a skyscraper in Tampa, Florida. It damaged one office room and he was the only person that died.
X0kZr TIL astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but it was later discovered that due to a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece of his telescope, he was actually mapping the blood vessels in his own eye