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TIL Gibraltar forgot it was a city for 180 years. In 2022 it applied to gain city status, lost the bid, but became a city anyway after reaeachers discovered Queen Victoria had granted it that status 180 years ago.

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VMWX0 TIL The FBI’s Indian Country program includes over 140 special agents and 40 victim specialists in 36 field offices. Indeed, 33% of all FBI victim specialists and 50% of all FBI child and adolescent forensic interviewers work directly with victims and families on more than 200 Indian reservations.
5Y8y9 TIL the first manned balloon flight in the United States would have failed if the pilot and the passenger had not removed all extra weight from the craft including their clothes and the contents of their bladders.
xdLB TIL Lafayette, a Frenchman who served as a General in the Revolutionary War, toasted to ‘the perpetual union of the United States. It has always saved us in times of storm; one day it will save the world.’ In 1917, an American officer gave a speech at his grave in Paris; 'Lafayette, we are here.’
QNJWL TIL in 1896, American taxidermist Carl Akeley was attacked by a leopard while on a visit to Africa and killed it with his bare hands by ramming his hand down the leopard's throat and choking it to death.
nWN8r TIL about the Shreveport Rate Case, a SCOTUS case that allowed the federal government to regulate intrastate commerce when it is needed to regulate interstate commerce. It was brought against an interstate railway that charged shipping rates that favored Texan cities, a policy mandated by the state.