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TIL the first time a person was charged with drunk driving using an EV was on 10 September 1897

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nWvZo TIL - Sixty Years Ago, NASA Scientists Found That Women Would Be Better Astronauts. Their Work Was Never Published.
ZLmR TIL that after being shot twice by Leon Czolgosz, US President William McKinley told the artillery soldiers who were beating on Czolgosz to “Go easy on him boys.”
5ZBP TIL that multiple people have died attempting to cross a seemingly calm, innocent creek called the Bolton Strid. The stream actually hosts multiple underwater cave systems and dangerous currents below the surface that have sucked numerous people to their deaths.
WZX8 TIL that each state in the USA is legally allowed to form their own State Defense Force that is meant to be used for the protection of the state. This is independent from the National Guard and army and only 21 states have their own independent State Defense Force.
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