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TIL the NSA is the largest employer of mathematicians in the United States

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6Elom TIL six US states still have alienation of affection laws. A divorced spouse can sue a third party for breaking up a marriage.
98ZB TIL That in 2011 in the US there were 1694 murders using knives, 496 murders with blunt object, 726 using bare hands and feet, and just 323 murders using rifles (including the ‘assault’ variety)
yQZPw TIL of Marv Heemeyer Who built an armoured bulldozer After losing an appeal in the council against construction of a concrete plant and destroyed his own shop, the concrete plant, city hall, fr. mayor's house,, a hardware store. In the end he killed himself, the only fatality of the event.
Br0Eb TIL that usually when the first trailer of a movie drops, all the visual effects are pretty much the only effects that have been completed up until that point.
gM5dA TIL a nearly worthless Mormon owned cow precipitated the start of the US war with the Lakota.