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TIL London is technically a forest

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rNLNM TIL a town in Colorado had an unelected mayor serve for over 50 years. He was appointed mayor pro tem because the then-mayor didn't want to sign liquor licenses, and inherited the post when the mayor died. The town considered doing an election in 1974, but it was too expensive.
Wkjr9 TIL of John Nixon, an 88-year-old former commando who attacked five robbers who were mugging a woman. He was stabbed in the hands and head after trying to disarm one of them. They fled afterwards, leaving empty handed. Nixon survived the encounter and recovered in hospital.
grlg9 TIL a bronze sword that's more than 3,000 years old was unearthed in Bavaria last year with a state of preservation so "extraordinary" that it "almost still shines."
p8ejp TIL that Deborah Sampson was the only woman to earn a full military pension for participating in the American Revolutionary War, in which she disguised herself as a man in-order to enlist.
GYmdE TIL Louisville's Brandeis School of Law has the name of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. It also has his body: he's buried underneath it.