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TIL Oregon has exclusively voted by mail since 1998.
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TIL it's national cheese fondue day and bunch more others
5VYZR
TIL about John List, who murdered his whole family in 1971 and eluded capture for 18 years, until his story was broadcast on America’s Most Wanted in 1989.
D1alD
TIL in 1907 a 9,317 mile automobile race from Peking to Paris was held after a French newspaper asked if anyone could prove their claim that if a man has a car, he can go anywhere. The race was held despite the race committee cancelling the race and the winner won a bottle of champagne.
8arY8
TIL the record-holder as the USSR's most productive and competent worker had his name misspelled in the state newspaper. The bureaucracy officially changed his name to match rather than admit their mistake.
OE77
TIL that just before the Halifax Explosion, a train dispatcher who saw the cargo ship with the explosives catch fire sent a message saying “Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys.”