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TIL: It is illegal to try and talk a terrorist group out of using violence to further their cause.

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D9OP TIL that The Smokey Bear Effect is a bad thing, decades of preventing small fires leads to the accumulation of undergrowth, that fuels massive superfires today
NXvr8 TIL vodka can be made from whey- a dairy byproduct
J1P1B TIL about Tightwad Bank in Tightwad, MO. Opened in 1984 closed in 2006. Reopened in 2008 and as of 2018 closed. Currently being used as storage w/ plans to be used as an Antique Mall.
wLX9P A new study published February 15 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society finds that the Andromeda galaxy is actually around the same size as our own galaxy. Scientists previously thought Andromeda was about two to three times the size of the Milky Way, and that it would one day swallow us up in a galactic smashup billions of years away. But researchers using a technique to measure “the speed required to escape a galaxy” have figured out why Andromeda is smaller than research has suggested, according to the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR). This could seriously change the outcome of that eventual merger.
LEkV TIL that in 2002 NASA bought parts for the space shuttle on ebay because intel wouldn’t make them anymore.