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TIL Oklahoma has a panhandle because Texas had to abandon all of its land north of Missouri’s southern border to be added as a slave state. It then went unassigned to any territory for 45 years.

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Br5ne TIL Alberta has no rats due to serious rat control policies, including a $5000 fine for having a rat. In 2004 someone released 38 rats in Calgary but by the time the rat control officers arrived the local residents had already formed an armed posse and hunted them down with brooms, 2x4s, and shovels
W6W8 TIL The shower curtain sucks in around you when showering since water droplets decellerate under the influence of aerodynamic drag. The energy gets transferred to the shower’s air and creates a low pressure system (similar to a hurricane) which sucks the curtain towards you.
mNGx TIL billionaire J. Paul Getty refused to pay $17m ransom for his kidnapped Grandson. When the teenager’s severed ear arrived, he agreed $3m but only paid $2.2m… the maximum that would be tax deductable. He lent the other $800k to his son on the condition that he pay it back with 4% interest.
epQRg TIL about the Eliza Armstrong case where journalist W.T. Stead bought a 13-year-old girl to expose sexual slavery in Victorian England. His reports helped pass the 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act raising the age of consent from 13 to 16, but Stead was jailed three months for abduction.
6YgX TIL that the guy who voices Mr Krabs in Spongebob is the bad prison warder in Shawshank Redemption