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TIL that comparatively few libel suits in the United States are successful.

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l8v1 TIL a British bloke has traveled to every country and territory on earth without taking a single flight.
GYWg4 TIL Adeline and Augusta Van Buren were the first women to travel across the country on solo motorcycles. They made it despite frequently being arrested for wearing pants.
XDEj TIL that the Apollo 17 ‘Blue Marble’ photograph originally had the south pole at the top, and was inverted to conform to the traditional view of 'north’ being 'up’.
Xa8Q TIL: Of a Chechen terrorist attack in Moscow theater in 2002. Of the 130 people who died in the attack, only 1 was killed by terrorists, the other 129 were killed by the Russian special forces trying to rescue them.
Lk6Gp TIL in 1926, Poland sent the US a birthday card with over 5 million signatures. Polish citizen Leopold Kotnowski visited the White House to present the card for America’s 150th birthday. It has 30,000 pages full of art, photos, poems and pressed flowers.