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TIL Between 2012 and 2013, over 100 people have self-immolated in Tibet.

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lodPV TIL about Benson rafts, huge rafts up to 1000 feet long made of thousands of logs lashed together that used to be floated across 1,100 miles of open ocean from the mouth of the Columbia River to San Diego as a cheaper alternative to sending the logs by rail.
5VAXn TIL That Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, was present at or close by to three presidential assassinations. Later in life he would decline a presidential invitation stating that "...there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present."
vDdj TIL in 1971, a woman petitioned a Judge for permission to sterilize her “somewhat retarded” daughter. Without a hearing, evidence, or representation for the daughter, the judge granted permission. The daughter later tried to sue the judge, but the Supreme Court voted 5-3 to grant the judge immunity.
nWVyo TIL that ants can grow their own food, keep livestock, teach their younglings, bury their dead, wage wars, medevac and care for their injured, keep slaves and build massive cities and supercolonies spanning several continents
XgN8 TIL The guy who designed the original Twitter’s logo only made about $3 off iStockPhoto