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TIL - All of Germany's federal laws & regulations are tracked in a GitHub repository

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woe5M TIL During the world war II, German saboteurs operating against Britain, designed chocolate bar bombs that were intended to be smuggled into Britain with the purpose of assassination.
6EXWl TIL that there is a project called the innocence project aiming to revoke wrongful convictions through DNA tests. They have recently exonerated a man who spent 36 years in prison for a crime he did not commit
DOJ TIL red Solo cups are a trendy, expensive item in the UK and Ireland due to US tv shows. (Irish friend is visiting and was amazed by how cheap they are here, so we bought her a 150pk to take home)
0dX1j Today I learned that General Mills, the cereal company, used to have an electronics division that, in 1953, created the “black box” found in today’s airplanes.
6ElkX TIL Willem Kieft, leader of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, ordered an attack on a native village after some pigs have been stolen from a colonist's farms. They later determined that the pigs were actually stolen by fellow colonists.