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TIL that gooning is a form of legal kidnapping in the US where a parent can hire someone to kidnap a kid they think is troubled at night to bring them to boarding school or behavior modification facility.

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ZpynG TIL that the Hundred Years’ War was actually a 116 year war fought over three distinct periods.
X05Ek Til A man with delusions of being the president had became leader of Estonia. He then went about banning all political parties, illegally postponing elections since the public was “Sick-minded”, while replacing the congress with the chamber of commerce. He would later die in a mental hospital.
GYoM5 TIL an Archaeologist from Florida found what he believed to be an Ancient Roman ship off the coast of Brazil. The Brazilian Navy then banned all underwater exploration, expelled the archaeologist from the country, and buried his dive location under tonnes of silt.
Rppj TIL NASA’s Curiosity Rover Leaves Tracks in Morse Code
VrBp TIL 36% of Americans said that they screamed, yelled, cursed, or physically assaulted their computers in the last 6 months