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TIL that Amish businesses have a 95% success rate at staying open at least five years

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KY9kB TIL Thai surnames are often very long because by law they are required to be unique to one family.
aw5Q9 TIL Lafayette, the French officer who aided the U.S. Revolutionary War, gifted a pair of pistols to Washington in 1778. Eventually, they came into Andrew Jackson's possession, and Lafayette identified them while visiting Jackson in 1825. In his will, Jackson bequeathed them back to Lafayette's son.
XlGr TIL that it is still legal in 19 states to paddle students as a form of punishment.
mxVoY TIL about James Reavis, also known as "The Baron of Arizona," who almost swindled the U.S. government out of the entirety of Arizona. He forged numerous papers in Spain, Mexico, and the U.S. to prove that he "inherited" the land from a fictional family
x664b TIL of Dubay v. Wells (2006), a child support case. Dubay argued he should not have to pay child support for a child he did not want to parent. It was dismissed in appeals. Dubay was asked to appeal to the US Supreme Court, but Dubay declined.