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TIL that killing a tyrant was legal in classical Greece and was called Tyrannicide

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X0o5r TIL that in 2022 scientists researching life’s origins observed that rocks known as basaltic glasses (usually found where lava is quenched or where meteorite impacts cool) were able to spontaneously link individual RNA letters - nucleoside triphosphates, into RNA strands up to 300 letters long.
R5KPw TIL There is a movie from 1995 about the USA invading Canada, a satire where the President needs a distraction from internal affairs
LkRP9 TIL in 1984 Thomas Cavanaugh, an aerospace engineer. Was sentenced to life in prison for stealing classified documents about the B-2 stealth bomber and trying to sell them to the Soviet Union for only $25,000.
RK58 TIL Barry Goldwater said, And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. “
OG877 TIL Bison were among the first animals in the National Zoo (DC) & they were actually the inspiration for the zoo.