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TIL Slavery is not fully abolished in the US as the thirteen amendment provides an exception for people convicted of a crime

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4kM1w TIL that in the late 18th/early 19th centuries, an explorer traveled over 90,000 kilometres (56,000 mi) across North America, and mapped 4.9 million square kilometres (1.9 million square miles) of the continent.
e0kE5 TIL in 2005, a strip club in Bloise, Idaho, managed to sidestep city laws banning total nudity in public by offering customers the chance to make drawings depicting its dancers. The law forbids full nudity in public unless the display has "serious artistic merit".
5xMp TIL that Spiral stairs in medieval times were typically wound in a clockwise direction, to place attacking swordsmen (who were most often right-handed) at a disadvantage.
jNEoj TIL the top 5 largest protests in the US all happened in the last 3 years.
5YQl8 TIL that Bill Gates kept a map of Africa on his garage wall so he could slowly memorize it between getting in and out of his car.