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TIL the FBI placed a GPS tracking device on a student’s car for his Reddit comments

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JYN6Q Today I learned the St. Francis dam disaster was one of the most catastrophic civil engineering failures in American history.
Zpxdv TIL 5,200 tons of space dust falls on Earth every year
9yM7 TIL Mithridates VI was so paranoid of being poisoned that he took small doses throughout his life to build up an immunity. When he was finally captured by the Romans, he tried to kill himself with poison but failed because he was immune.
RpX6 TIL celebrated British military surgeon James Barry was found to be a woman on his death
bBOp TIL that there was a Polish King nicknamed “the Strong” because he could break horseshoes with his bare hands and loved fox tossing, a sport where you throw foxes with a sling, one event had 1235 foxes, hares, badgers, and wildcats. He had several mistresses and fathered as many as 382 children.