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TIL that in 2006 a court in Maryland decided that mooning was a form of artistic expression.

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kOZxB TIL that while Sputnik was the first man-made object to reach orbit, 13 years earlier the Nazis launched the MW 18014 rocket, the first man-made object to reach outer space.
rGaW TIL that “Chop Suey” literally means “miscellaneous leftovers” in Chinese.
8aOQ8 TIL that Ireland, New Zealand, Iceland, Greenland, and Antarctica are the only places on Earth that do not have any native snakes.
lvdB TIL the doctor who ran the famous gender identity study on identical twin boys where one was raised as a girl falsified his data for 30 years, and that the boy never actually accepted his female identity
4vNb TIL that during the 9/11 World Trade Center Attacks, Fox News decided to add a news slider that crawled at the bottom of the screen to give updates. It was so effective that other news channels began to implement it even to this day.