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TIL: The boomerang kid from Mad Max still has the boomerang.

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gjyW TIL there is no upper age limit for Peace Corps volunteers and there are about 500 volunteers over age 50 (7% of their volunteers)
R7gw6 TIL President Ulysses Grant was arrested by the DC police for speeding, taken into custody, and released with a fine. His horse and carriage were also seized and he had to walk back to the White House.
xVPa0 TIL a man in Oklahoma was sentenced to a life in prison for standing near less than a fifth of a gram of weed on the floor in his friends apartment.
KOxLE TIL: That a retreating Austrian army of 3000 men accidentally encountered Napoleon leading a force of only 1200 French in the middle of the night. Napoleon tricked the Austrians into thinking his entire army was present and captured the larger force without as single shot being fired.
W7QAY TIL that there is a sea on earth with no land barriers - and it even has its own animals.