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TIL that in 2009 a teenager was assaulted and gang-raped at a school in California, and it took over two hours for anyone to call the police despite there being multiple witnesses to the attack, some of whom allegedly filmed the proceedings instead

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9wbBD TIL not even ex presidents and vice president can drive on american roads (they can on their own private roads) and they can’t own a normal smartphone
D1E9p TIL that the word Antarctic just mean "opposite of the arctic."
mx9Xy TIL your brain/eyes will generate a "light show" (known as the Prisoner's Cinema) if kept in darkness for long periods of time. The phenomenon is reported by prisoners confined to dark cells and by others kept in darkness as well as; truck drivers, pilots and practitioners of intense meditation.
loekV TIL about Scott and Helen Nearing, who bought acreage in the Great Depression and lived off the land until a ski resort saw their property value soar to $6 million. Deciding they'd done nothing to justify the increase, they donated the land to use as a forest, moved to Maine, and lived to age 99.
PYXeG TIL That in 1998 a woman from Tennessee was elected Democratic State Senator as a write-in candidate after the original Democratic candidate, her husband, was assassinated by his opponent 2 weeks before the election. She won 95% of votes and 3 subsequent elections before retiring undefeated in 2013