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TIL Oregon has exclusively voted by mail since 1998.

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ADKga TIL a Florida woman used the Pizza Hut app to get police help. Her boyfriend held her hostage with her children, and took her phone away. She convinced him to let her use the phone to order a pizza; she put in the comments: "Please help. Get 911 to me." Police arrived; the boyfriend was arrested.
NKm8 TIL Lionel Richie grew up in racially segregated Alabama and once unwittingly drank from a whites only fountain. White men confronted his father, who grabbed Richie and ran off. Richie asked his father why he didn’t stay and fight. His dad answered, “I had a choice: to be a man or be a father.”
9lG7 TIL that Cops is the longest running Reality TV show ever. It started due to a Writers Guild of America strike.
woymo TIL that a version of the Golden Rule can be found on ancient Egyptian papyrus from the Egyptian late period, which states "That which you hate to be done to you, do not do to another."
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