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TIL that in May of 2012, Florida Judge James Daniel denied Marissa Alexander protection under Stand Your Ground Laws and sentenced her to 20-years in prison for firing warning shots at her allegedly abusive husband, against whom she had already taken out a protective order.

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BDWW TIL of Cincinnati Freedom, a cow that jumped a 6 foot fence at a slaughterhouse in Cincinnati, only to evade police officers for 11 days, making national news headlines, and eventually living out the rest of its life in NY.
oBJWW TIL while toilet paper was invented in 1857, splinter-free toilet paper was not invented until 1935
Z0lR TIL New Zealand was undiscovered and COMPLETELY DEVOID of human beings no more than 800 years ago.
AegB TIL that in June 2009, a State Department official mailed Jack Dorsey with a request to delay scheduled maintenance of Twitter’s global network, which would have cut off service while Iranians were using Twitter to swap information about protests around Tehran. Twitter complied with the request.
4Xg9a TIL in ancient Egypt, under the decree of Ptolemy II, all ships visiting the city were obliged to surrender their books to the library of Alexandria and be copied. The original would be kept in the library and the copy given back to the owner.