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TIL the 2012 Olympics was the first time that every country sent a woman to compete.

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PYvJJ TIL that in 1670, against a judge's instructions, a jury refused to find two men guilty. The judge held the jury in contempt; locked them up overnight without food, water or heat; and fined them. On appeal, the Chief Justice ruled that a jury could not be punished for returning the wrong verdict.
6987J TIL that on February 25th 1919, Oregon became the first state in the United States to implement a gas tax of 1 penny per gallon to fund road construction and maintenance.
ZBWv TIL about Irena Sendler who (assisted by some two dozen other Żegota members) smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then provided them with false identity documents and shelter outside the Ghetto, saving those children from the Holocaust.
6EAvl TIL that the country of Paraguay runs on 100% hydroelectric power and only consumes 10% of the electricity it generates, exporting the rest. Almost all of this power comes from the Itaípu dam, which also provides over 25% of Brazil's electricity.
xww TIL- That a famine in Ethiopia from 1983-1985 killed around 400,000-1,000,000 people and that 56,000 tons of food donated by aid efforts from the West through Live Aid was left to rot in a port by the Ethiopian government.