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TIL of Conrad Heyer, a soldier who crossed the Delaware with George Washington and lived long enough to be photographed

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7rG5b TIL When the Court of Appeals found it illegal for the US Government to compel Microsoft to hand overseas data over, the US Government passed a new law making it legal and reissued the warrant
49VJ TIL Ted Nugent shit his pants and quit bathing to avoid the draft
mxAPR TIL of bematists of ancient Greek and Egypt, trained professionals who were hired to measure distance by counting their highly accurately spaced steps. The mathematician Eratosthenes worked out the circumference of the Earth using bematists' work.
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