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TIL that the small town of Wallace, ID (pop. 971) is actually the center of the universe

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pYOP8 TIL About 40% of New York 9/11 victims' remains have yet to be identified
LQpdd TIL that until the 1967 Supreme Court case In re Gault, juveniles accused of crimes in the US did not have the same due process rights as adults. The case involved a 16 year-old sentenced to 6 years in juvenile detention for a prank call, a crime for which adults had a maximum sentence of 2 months.
KZ6G TIL the town of Singapore, Michigan, was eroded into ruins and covered in sand after the area was deforested for lumber to rebuild Chicago following the great fire of 1871
RWgj TIL that it currently costs 2000 lives a year to power Beijing, but only 200 lives a year to give twice the power to New York simply because of clean air laws. If China and America went full nuclear, those stats would drop to 0.6 and 1.2 lives a year respectively.
ADdpa TIL Cesar Chavez had a dog named Boycott who taught him "to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings." He said “Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bullfighting, and rodeos are all cut from the same defective fabric: violence.”