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TIL a Massachussets judge ordered a mentally ill woman to have an abortion and be sterilized against her wishes.

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d8av7 TIL: about the Transcontinental Airmail Route. A series of huge, bright yellow, illuminated, concrete arrows, built in the 1920s. They were every 10 miles and followed to enable night flying. A lot of these concrete arrows, now cracked and aged, still exist across America.
9YK4p TIL Pedro Lopez, one of the world's most prolific serial killers who has confessed to over 300 murders, only spent 14 years in jail, absconded on a $50 bail, and remains at large
JrOl TIL that the UK can use nuclear weapons if BBC Radio 4 stops broadcasting.
xDPk TIL that if you played the actual, framed golden record awarded to artists, it will probably play a completely different album than the one the award is for.
GYwA5 TIL in 1709, a colonial delegation brought four Indians to London—three Mohawks and a Mahican—and presented them in London as the “Four Indian Kings” of the Iroquois. The four kings met Queen Anne, dined with nobility, attended the theater, and toured the sites.