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TIL that a child was prosecuted as an adult for having naked images of himself on his own phone

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r7B4 TIL that the FBI used ‘an effective, time-tested process’ to internally address shooting incidents and concluded themselves faultless in 150 shootings.
Rlpw TIL when Montenegro became independent from Yugoslavia, its Internet domain name went from being .yu to .me
1Ywr TIL the head of Columbia Studios had Sammy Davis Jr. kidnapped by the Mafia to keep him from marrying a white woman.
4kNZX TIL of one of the worst maritime disasters in US history,the explosion and sinking of the steamboat Sultana. Designed to carry 376, 2500 civil war veterans crowded the decks, desperate to get home. It was completely overshadowed by the death of Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, a day earlier.
N7OWQ Today I learned the Cornus Florida is the state tree for Virginia and Missouri, but not Florida.