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TIL In Boston, duels can be carried out to death on Sunday as long as the governor is present.

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J1PGj TIL about the “other 9/11”, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, which was supported by the CIA.
nWp4B TIL while abiotic synthesis of chiral molecules always yields an equal mixture of their enantiomers, the biomolecules that make up life are always chiral and single-handed. Sientists believe that figuring out how life emerged from a racemic prebiotic world is key to undersanding the origin of life.
78PoZ TIL that the longest word entered in most standard English dictionaries is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is 45 letters long and describes a type of lung disease. The longest "word" stands at 189,819 letters long and would not fit in the title of this thread.
04gA TIL that trading commodities on insider information, as shown in the movie Trading Places, was not illegal until the “Eddie Murphy” rule was passed in 2010
jkeN TIL Jimmy Carter is the only U.S. president to have lived in housing subsidized for the poor.