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TIL Happy hour (discounted alcoholic drinks) has been illegal in Massachusetts since 1984

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wey1 TIL In 2011 Armenia lost internet for five hours after a 75 year old Georgian woman sliced through cables while scavenging for copper.
0DRv TIL that a holocaust denial group offered $50,000 to anyone who could prove that gas chambers were used to intentionally kill people at Auschwitz. They were forced by a judge to pay that money, and an additional $40,000, to Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein who provided proof of that very fact.
wME8 TIL in 2005 a glitch in World of Warcraft allowed a plague to spread in the game leading non-infected players to abandon cities while those infected were forced into quarantines. It was later studied by epidemiologists to see how real life people would react to a pandemic.
Z8ayY TIL in 1898 a group of Indian railroad workers were stalked by a pair of man-eating lions that killed at least 35 of the labourers and stopped constuction before being shot to death.
kddm TIL the Vikings sacked Paris in 845 and did not leave until King Charles the Bald paid them 5,670 lbs of silver and gold.