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TIL during the 2009 elections Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of NYC, changed long standing state laws just so he could serve a 3rd term.

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9w8BM TIL medieval European scholars believed the Southern Hemisphere couldn't be habitable because they thought the Equator was too hot to cross, making places south of it unreachable by evangelists, and since Jesus told the apostles to "evangelize all mankind", unreachable people couldn't exist.
4kK5g TIL jurists in certain countries of Africa formerly colonized by the British still wear white, old-fashioned judicial wigs
R5xpQ TIL in the mid-1800s, a snail spent nearly four years glued to a specimen card in the British Museum before scientists realized it was still alive.
XxvQ TIL that 70 scientists who worked in the Manhattan project signed a petition pleading for president Truman to delay using atomic weapons on Japan before considering an observed demonstration of its power, but it never made it to Truman before the bombings
pY5yZ TIL of the Great Lego Spill - In 1997 a rogue wave caused a cargo ship to spill 4.8 million Lego pieces into the ocean, many are still being found today