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TIL it used to be illegal for women to wear trousers in the USA

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VBXDk TIL the 1988 Camelford Water Disaster was the UK's worst mass poisoning event. Twenty tonnes of aluminium sulphate was accidentally added to the water supply, leading thousands to become sick. Inquests on people who died many years later found very high levels of aluminium in the brain.
Y7eR7 TIL Saturn’s moon Titan is the only other world in the solar system other than Earth that has weather and liquid on the surface
OoOea TIL Alexander Hamilton didn’t believe in democracy, which he labeled an American “disease.” He fought—with military force—any model of organizing the American political economy that might promote egalitarian politics. He was an authoritarian, and proud of it.
p8wEQ TIL that the tiny European country of San Marino conferred citizenship on Abraham Lincoln, who responded by thanking them and praising their system of government.
Jav TIL There is a humming noise coming out of Detroit that is driving Canadians across the river crazy, but not Americans.