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TIL in 1970s the USA built and tested hovertrains

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YZ1v TIL in 2010, a flash mob of black youth showed up at the Iowa State Fair, yelled “It’s beat whitey night!”, and proceeded to assault white fairgoers at random.
RE66 TIL That the man who distributed the very first ransomware virus in 1989 was discovered, but never convicted, and now owns a butterfly conservatory in Upstate New York
gM0w4 TIL that the last known population of Woolly Mammoths lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until 4,000 years ago, well into the start of human civilization and concurrent with the construction of the Great Pyramid of ancient Egypt
mEvp TIL Finland is the strictest country in the world in terms of driving lessons. There are lessons required regarding car maintenance and driving in icy conditions, with learners requiring a test in the summer and another one in the winter.
wLr1M TIL about the Guangxi Massacre during China's cultural revolution, where hundreds of people were cannibalized and barbecued out of hatred and tens of thousands more were murdered.