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TIL that due to various laws that prevent any sex offender from living close to children an entire town was built exclusively for offenders in Florida.

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neGeY TIL that Jimi Hendrix played guitar for Little Richard
Odx7 TIL In 2004, An NYU Student spent 8 months living in the college library due to being unable to afford tuition and room & board despite a $15000/yr scholarship and working 30 hours a week. Upon learning about this, the university gave him free accommodation through the summer.
XwVE TIL British grenades in WWI originally had a timer of seven seconds, but that was found to be too long as it gave the Germans time to throw the bomb back. Therefore, the time was reduced to four seconds.
MeyyW TIL that the planes (Boeing B-29 Bomber) that carried the atomic bombs in WW2 cost more to develop than the entire Manhattan project
v1eX7 A new print-in-place technique for electronics is gentle enough to work on delicate surfaces including paper and human skin, researchers report. The advance could enable technologies such as high-adhesion, embedded electronic tattoos, and bandages tricked out with patient-specific biosensors.