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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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9GEX TIL of a bar in New Mexico opened in 1896. At one point it was owned by a Justice of the Peace who held court there and jailed the guilty in the back. During prohibition, it ran as a pool hall with a secret trap door leading to the speakeasy in the basement. The Capitol Bar remains open to this day!
raMw TIL that Al Gore’s father once proposed, in Congress, “something cataclysmic” be done to end the Korean War. His suggestion involved creating a radiation belt on the 38th parallel using atomic bombs to turn the border of North and South Korea into a permanent toxic wasteland.
X0agE TIL of the Fighting Fireman Terry Marsh an undefeated British boxer, who not only won all of his fights in the ring, but was then acquitted of shooting his former manager Frank Warren as well.
ABGn TIL there is a new type of snail recently discovered named after Steve Irwin named Crikey Irwiny
LvVr TIL that babies put anything/everything into their mouths because it’s where their most-developed nerve endings are.