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TIL: Saudi Declares Online Satire A Punishable Offense

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bD7E TIL during his undergraduate years, Newton made college notes that detailed the movement of water from plants to leaves - 225 years before the natural phenomenon of transpiration was first widely proposed in 1895.
NPoJ TIL an annual tradition at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is a double feature viewing of The Thing and The Shining after the last flight has left for the winter
nGGr TIL Real-time (to the day) drug use in urban areas can be monitored through sampling the sewage.
EyDP TIL Hugh Thompson Jr., a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, threw away his Distinguished Flying Cross when he saw the citation included a fabricated account of the My Lai Massacre.
rbr1 TIL If you receive merchandise (for example: from an online vender) that you didn’t order, you have a legal right to keep it as a “free gift”, and you aren’t even legally obliged to notify the seller you’re going to keep it.