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TIL In Iowa, you can go to jail by being intoxicated - or even by simulating it - in public.

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awJgy TIL a teenager from Connecticut completed her bucket list right before she was hit by a car. She had one goal left: save a life and before the car hit her she pushed her friend to get him out of the way.
jnPQ TIL “African Dodger” was an American carnival game where people paid to throw a baseball at an African American’s head
AWvx TIL the band Devo takes their name from their concept of ‘de-evolution’ - the idea that instead of continuing to evolve, mankind has actually begun to regress, as evidenced by the dysfunction and herd mentality of American society.
kJ69E TIL Louis Till, father of Emmet Till, also died by hanging 10 years before Emmet during WWII after receiving a Court Marital in Italy
GAWjG TIL about Maximilian I, the last Emperor of Mexico. A member of the House of Habsburg, he acceded to the throne led by the misguided belief that a sham referendum conducted in his favor by the French was legitimate. He was executed by republican forces in 1867, only 3 years after his accesion.