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TIL NASA has an overdue fine for $400 owed to the Dundas Shire in WA Australia for littering

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R5ZJa TIL One of the most notorious rotten boroughs in the UK before the Great Reform Act of 1832 was Dunwich, a constituency that had mostly flooded after the sea had encroached upon the town. While only 232 people remained by 1831, it still sent 2 MPs to Parliament.
yQ6X8 TIL that Fermilab used to clean its particle accelerators with a ferret named Felicia, who would run through the tubes with cleaning supplies attached and be rewarded with hamburger meat
v10a7 TIL of St. Martin de Porres - the Catholic patron saint of mixed-race people, barbers, innkeepers, public health workers, and all those seeking racial harmony. He was the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman, Don Juan de Porres and Ana Velázquez, a free woman of African-Native American descent.
vPBBK TIL that trench rats was such a nuisance during WW1 that they are considered one of the worst parts of living in the trenches as only high-ranking people are given anti-rat beds and there are even reports of rats injuring foreheads that led to visits to the infirmary.
kOWX5 TIL that Denmark hosts the largest 4th of July celebration outside of the US