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TIL the term “Carjacking” originated in Detroit, MI

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OWN1 TIL that “Make feet for children’s stockings” was once a euphamism for sex.
bZdZ TIL a man broke out of prison by mailing himself in a crate and evaded capture hours later by convincing the police he was a jogger. He then traveled from one side of Canada and the States to the other before being caught.
JZNv TIL the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution, which delays laws affecting Congressional salary from taking effect until after the next election of representatives, took 202 years to pass. It was outstanding from Sept 25, 1789 until May 5, 1992.
gZk7 TIL that former NSA Intelligence Official William Binney blew the whistle on the NSA’s surveillance activities as early as 2002, and was raided by the FBI in July 2007 in suspicion of his role in a New York Times Expose on warrant-less wiretapping.
W750N TIL the Australian Government inadvertently banned Christianity in 1940 when it declared the Adelaide Jehovah's Witnesses to be a subversive association and prohibited all associated doctrines