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TIL that until 1913, children in the United States could legally be sent by mail

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bem0 TIL China’s #2 most-wanted man keeps offering himself up to the Chinese Government for arrest so he can see his aging parents – but they’re ignoring him
9wL4r TIL that the city of Tulsa is basically a contraction of the word “Tallahassee”, the Creek word for “Old Town”.
ADMLn TIL that diesel trains are moved forward using electrical motors, the diesel engine is only used as a source to create electricity through a generator
wLk0o TIL In 1994, in an attempt to ban raves, the UK passed a law banning public performance of music “wholly or predominantly characterized by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.” In response, the electronic band Autechre issued a track, Flutter, in which no two bars have the same beat.
WkL8N TIL that people sentenced to death by beheading were advised to give the headsman a gold coin to ensure he did not botch the beheading and cause a painful death by multiple strokes