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Til: The first interracial kiss on TV was not on Star Trek. It was on a British medical soap opera in 1964.

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ep9eE TIL in 2016 a Florida woman who streamed herself driving drunk received a "harsher than usual" punishment because 'she flaunted her endangering the community". In addition to punishments common for a first-time DUI, she also received 150 hours of community service & 10 days of weekend work release.
XEOg8 TIL Washington Redskins' owner Dan Snyder once cut down trees along the Potomac River so that he could see it from his house. The trees were located in a national park, and a ranger who raised concern about the issue was raided by US Marshals
nW1BB TIL that the "dissolution of the monasteries", decreed by King Henry VIII of England from 1536 to 1541, was preceded by the kings of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway seizing monasterial assets. This included the seizure of horses at Esrum Abbey, which led to the creation of the Frederiksborger horse.
a8DPM TIL about Washington D. C.'s Height of Buildings Act of 1899 - still in effect. New technologies in construction were allowing for taller buildings but people were afraid of what they didn't understand. Also, fire fighting equipment, at this time, could only reach a maximum height of 130 feet.
69owl Today I learned that during the Paria delta p incident that did happen on February 2022, the five commercial divers were sucked into the 30’’ pipeline at a mean velocity of about 3,3 m/s (10.8 ft/s) and stopped sliding when they were at about 200 m (656 ft) from the riser elbow.