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TIL that masturbation was a capital crime in the Puritan colony of New Haven, Connecticut

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AePo TIL Harrods department store has a dress code policy. It has turned away people who it believed were not dressed appropriately. These included a soldier in uniform, a Scout troop, a woman with a mohican haircut, a 15 stone woman, and FC Shakhtar Donetsk’s first team for wearing tracksuits.
OGAKR TIL in 1985 French government agents bombed and sank a Greenpeace ship docked in Auckland, New Zealand, killing a freelance photographer
b9N94 TIL it's not uncommon for tomato plants to sprout up around sweage treatment plants. The seeds can pass through the digestive tract and germinate in overflow areas.
5DE9 TIL a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Lituya Bay caused a rockslide which created a megatsunami 1,720 feet tall, the tallest wave in recorded history.
xVWY5 TIL of the Five Whys method, invented by Sakichi Toyoda (b. 1867, d. 1930, founder of Toyota industries) as a method of working through symptoms until a root cause is discovered by asking "Why?" five times.