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TIL the Scythian Philosopher Anacharsis said some 2,500 years ago: "Laws are spider-webs, which catch the little flies, but cannot hold the big ones"

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oB6Gr TIL that a tornado appeared out of nowhere in DC after the British set fire to the White House in 1814, putting out the flames and killing more soldiers than the American resistance.
VBdNp TIL: New York had a secret CIA base disguised as an IRS office. It was in the World Trade Centre tower 7 that fell on 9/11
ZOyv TIL of the Children’s Crusade, in 1212 an unofficial crusade took place in which Nicholas of Cologne attempted to lead ~30,000 children to the holy land. They later found a fleet of boats willing to give them free passage to the Levant. The sailors ended up selling the children as slaves in Africa.
xjR1 TIL all the poop generated on the US Navy’s newest aircraft carrier will be vaporized by plasma.
p8Z6N TIL Aztecs saw giving birth as a battle, and women who died during childbirth were believed to go to the same heaven as fallen warriors.