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TIL of the 'Petticoat Revolution' of 1916 in which seven women led secret campaigns to gain control of the town of Umatilla, OR

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JJAm TIL In 1999, Lene Hau led a Harvard University team who, by use of a Bose-Einstein condensate, succeeded in slowing a beam of light to about 17 metres per second, and, in 2001, was able to stop a beam completely.
XnxD TIL Willie Nelson smoked weed on the roof of the White House with Jimmy Carter’s son.
GwYQ TIL a British IT worker threw out an old hard drive containing a few thousand bitcoin he mined when they were a novelty, prompting searches for the $9 million buried in a Welsh landfill
nWa8W TIL that the world's first full-length feature film was 'The Story of the Kelly Gang', made in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1906
grNL TIL that the orbits of two of Saturn’s moons are only 50km apart, less than each moon’s diameter, yet they never collide, instead they switch orbit every four years.