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TIL Collecting rainwatter is illegal in many US states

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yXaV TIL that in WW2 an American pilot fell over 20,000 feet and survived by falling through the glass roof of a train station.
R7gw6 TIL President Ulysses Grant was arrested by the DC police for speeding, taken into custody, and released with a fine. His horse and carriage were also seized and he had to walk back to the White House.
Q8pa TIL the government in Azerbaijan decided to spend close to 1 billion dollars on a song contest instead of giving their citizens clean water.
Ooyb1 TIL of Ekaterina Mikhailova-Demina, who was the only woman to have served in front-line reconnaissance in the Soviet marines during WWII. She carried hundreds of men to safety. In 1944, she helped assault a Ukrainian city, singlehandedly attacking a German position and taking 14 prisoners.
JdMV TIL That the Beats audio driver included with some laptops actually makes the sound worse than stock when you turn it off, to make the beats ‘enhancements’ sound better by comparison.