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TIL Australia had a white people only policy until the 1970s

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wl86 TIL in 2007, a middle school principle in Bethlehem, PA was arrested for being a meth dealer. He was arrested in his office, where he was found naked and watching gay porn with sex toys nearby.
yQMBp TIL That on November 21, 2012: Following a cease-fire ending fighting with Israel, celebratory gunfire in the Gaza Strip killed a man and wounded three others.
16VL8 TIL, in 1981 a group of American and Canadian citizens plotted to overthrow the government of Dominica with the aim of reinstalling it's former Prime Minister. The plotters were caught and imprisoned, including the former PM.
xVYeD TIL that Chinese science fiction writer Chen Qiufan published a short story using paragraphs automatically generated by AI, based on his own writing. That story won him a literary prize in a contest moderated by an AI judge, over Nobel laureate Mo Yan
jMPv TIL of Dragonskin a new generation of body armor. In one test this armor was shot by 150 rounds of various calibers of bullets including steel core rounds. It took a grenade at point blank range to damage the armor and yet was not enough to break through.