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xyxo TIL Nearly 30% of Americans believe an armed rebellion might be necessary in order to protect liberties (X-post r/ReportInjustice)
grYwX TIL Roosevelt was the longest-serving U.S. president and the only one to have served more than two terms, before the official implementation of term limits
YpNXB TIL that all beaches in Mexico are property of the federal government. There are no privately owned beaches in the whole country, all of them are open to public use.
p8YRA TIL on August 21, 1986 Lake Nyos suffocated more 1,700 people after a sudden release of carbon dioxide.
gMnXW TIL In 1975, a cat named F.D.C. Willard co-authored a physics paper that would become influential and often-cited because the author did not want to change the pronoun "we" that had been used throughout the paper. F.D.C. Willard went on to be the sole author of another paper in 1980.