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TIL There’s a text bot that will help you compose and send faxes to your state representatives and governor. Text “resist” to 50409.

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Ooj0R TIL Nigerian universities suffer from a problem brought on by violent secret social student groups known as Confraternities. They're basically fraternity groups that operate and act like criminal mafias.
RWa8 TIL in 2008 a Brazilian priest, as part of a fundraiser, strapped 1000 balloons to a lawn chair and sent himself up. Weeks later, he was found dead at sea, earning him a Darwin Award.
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N7O0N TIL George Washington was referred to in Algonquian as Conotocarious, a term meaning “Devourer of Cities”. He inherited the name from his great-grandfather, who ordered a massacre on five chieftains during a diplomatic parley in Bacon’s Rebellion.
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