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TIL that every sweepstakes must legally have a free method of entry, and you can get free McDonalds Monopoly pieces by mail.

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nWlab TIL There were more than 300,000 Christian converts in Japan around 1600. After the failed Shimabara Rebellion led by a Christian samurai, 37,000 Christian rebels and sympathizers got beheaded by the shogunate forces.
6LrZ TIL a 87 year old Baltimore woman locked a police officer in her basement when he tried searching her home without a warrant. She sued and won a $95,000 settlement.
loXgV TIL Leonard B. Robinson, known as the Baltimore Batman after dressing up as Batman and visiting hospitalized children in Baltimore, was killed in a car crash after his car broke down on the high way.
e0nlk TIL there are still unclimbed mountains on Earth, also referred to as "virgin peaks"
1a5B7 Today I learned the aircraft carrier ARA Veinticinco de Mayo of the Argentine navy was originally a British Colossus class Aircraft carrier form WWII. She was sold to the Netherlands and then to Argentine Navy ultimately partcipating in the Falklands war against her original builders, the British.