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TIL a man’s house was invaded by a SWAT team because they thought he was searching the Web for how to kill his wife, but it turned out he was a TV writer researching for a crime show.

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R71al TIL that a Latvian man evaded the Soviets in bunkers in the woods for the entirety of the 50 year Soviet occupation. He came put when the last Soviet troops left, age 70.
pYpe8 TIL an Indo-Greek King called Menander I (Milinda) adopted Buddhism after engaging in a conversation with a holy man, Nagasena, as recorded in the text “Milinda Panha” (Questions of Milinda)
oRZE7 TIL: That Iceland is the safest country in the world in case of a nuclear war, because it is isolated from the rest of the world, doesn't have a standing army to target and generates all of its electricity from geothermal sources.
j6NmQ TIL first cousin marriage is legal in 26 states, including New York and Massachusetts. Despite the stereotype, Mississippi and Texas are part of the minority that have outlawed the practice
oBkyY TIL the New York City Blackout of 1977 helped ignite the Hip-Hop scene. Prior to the outage, there was only a handful of DJ’s in the area, which was suffering economically. After, there were over a 1000 DJ’s due to people looting the music equipment stores during the blackout. Hip-hop had exploded.