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TIL in the 1980 US presidential election neither Jimmy Carter nor Ronald Reagan were allowed to privately raise funds, as they could only spend the money that was allocated to them under federal election law

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E19m7 TIL: The default location of an IP address in the USA, if no more granular location information is available, is mapped to a farm in Kansas. Because of this, the owners have been constantly harassed and visited by the FBI, IRS and others who have been scammed by someone with a US IP address
wolJ TIL that Mother Teresa did not administer painkillers to those infirmed in her homes for the dying (one could “hear the screams of people having maggots tweezered from their open wounds without pain relief”), believing that pain brought them closer to Christ.
wLrg1 TIL that in 1980, the MV Summit Venture collided with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge spanning the entrance to Tampa Bay. The southern span of the bridge collapsed onto the ship, killing 35 people.
eJ75 TIL the line from The Martian, “I’m going to have to science the shit out of this” isn’t translatable into several other languages. In the French translation: “I’ll have to shit out a lot of science to get out of this.” In Russian, “Only science can pull me out of this shit”.
5Y0x8 TIL that in Chiloe, an island in the south of Chile, there's a tradition called "minga" where the locals help each other to relocate their houses by dragging them through the sea with boats.