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TIL about 78-year-old twin sisters Margaret and Marjorie Barthel — who were purposefully and lovingly feeding rats, nurturing an exponentially multiplying population of rats on the affluent Westside of LA, which experts believe ranged from tens of thousands to as many as a half-million Rats

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6EPO7 TIL that Haiti—the only nation born of a slave revolt—could have been a prosperous country but was impoverished by a crippling, decades-long embargo imposed by Europe and the U.S. after former slaves overthrew the country's European ruling elites.
eKl5 TIL that Mormon missionaries are no longer allowed to come to Switzerland
GdEQ TIL the US Supreme Court has judged that in some circumstances personal insults and epithets constitute “fighting words” and are not protected by the 1st Amendment. This is also legally distinct from incitement and hate speech.
Wkbr8 TIL that the singer for the Canyonero theme song in The Simpsons was Hank Williams Jr.
1XD8 TIL that a woman in a wheelchair went on the show The Price is Right, and won a treadmill