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TIL about The Uncensored Library- a Minecraft server and map released by Reporters Without Borders as an attempt to circumvent censorship in countries without freedom of the press.

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YRkP TIL American soldiers in WWI who were skilled at trap shooting were armed with model 1897s and were stationed where they could fire at enemy hand grenades in midair. This would deflect the grenades from falling into the American trenches and therefore protect American soldiers
4kJLw TIL in 1960 when the book Lady Chatterley's Lover was on trial for obscenity, the prosecutor Mervyn Griffith-Jones asked the jury “Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or servants to read?” In response, members of the jury broke out in laughter.
OYnX TIL that Los Angeles has a pair of twin towers that are very similar in look to the New York Twin Towers, and they were designed by the same architect, Minoru Yamasaki
dDXY8 TIL that Camilla's great-grandmother Alice Keppel was the mistress of Charles' great-great-grandfather, King Edward VII.