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TIL About Lemon socialism where profits are privatized and losses are socialized.

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6EmQZ TIL in 2006, a freelance journalist from California was jailed by federal district court for 226 days. This is because he refused to turn over his videotapes of an anti-G8 protest, in which some protesters vandalized property and one of them being choked by a cop
VBlM0 TIL that the United States once had a $10,000 bill with Salmon P. Chase as the face, a former Chief Justice and Secretary of the Treasury.
Qeoe TIL A customer had to be dragged from a burning Hamburg, Germany sex shop by firefighters when he refused orders to evacuate. He had shut himself inside a private booth to watch a film (“Throbbin Hood”) and was heard complaining (while coughing from smoke inhalation) that he hadn’t “finished yet”
Wkp44 TIL that Sam Houston was removed as governor of Texas for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederate States of America.
QJk1p TIL of the Bronze Age collapse, in which incredibly rich, powerful, advanced civilizations, dependent on complex trade and agriculture, vanished in the span of a human lifetime.