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TIL someone was once arrested, convicted and fined for typing “../../../”

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XEG4X TIL the sea like sound you hear when you put a seashell near your ear is the echo the noise in the environment BUT ALSO the sound of the blood flowing in your ears and the muscles acting in your ears
8e6NX TIL about the Great Smog of London that lasted for 5 days and killed 10,000 people.
aGX0 TIL that a customer closed his million-dollar bank account after his bank refused to validate a 50c parking ticket
R7BLl TIL Ching Chow, a comic strip that was filled with stereotypical Chinese jokes managed to stay in papers until 1990 and was popular among gamblers as they thought it contained secrets for sports betting
5VrQD TIL that the U.S. Army disposed of banned chemical weapons and munitions through a program called CHASE (Cut Holes And Sink ‘Em) where the chemicals were loaded on a ship that was then purposely sank in the ocean.