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TIL: The default location of an IP address in the USA, if no more granular location information is available, is mapped to a farm in Kansas. Because of this, the owners have been constantly harassed and visited by the FBI, IRS and others who have been scammed by someone with a US IP address

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b6oXp TIL the original signed manuscripts of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto were nearly lost in WWII when being transported for safekeeping to Prussia by train in the care of a librarian. The train came under aerial bombardment and the librarian escaped to a nearby forest with the scores hidden in his coat.
vPB6L TIL there is no scientific evidence that white people originated in the Caucasus, as the term “Caucasian” suggests. Rather, the term was created because Noah’s Ark allegedly settled there, and therefore the first humans were supposedly white.
a80G0 TIL Oklahoma jails women for a "failure to protect" law where if their SO is abusing children in her home and they fail to do anything about it they can be sent to prison. Typically the women's sentence is longer than the one who abused the children.
kOadE TIL Samsung defended copying Apple's iPhone by claiming that Apple copied Sony so it didn't count
9d0G TIL that an IAU regulation states that all mountains on Titan must be named after mountains from The Lord of the Rings.