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TIL there are several land disputes between US and Canada

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rN4Ax TIL A man serving life in prison for the murder of his mother became the second highest-rated chess player in the US by obtaining USCF membership for other inmates and playing tournaments against them.
X6xr TIL James Lipton was literally a pimp
pYKle TIL Charley Havlat was the last US Army soldier to be killed in combat in Europe during WWII. On May 7, 1945 he was killed while on patrol in an ambush by German soldiers about 10 minutes before news reached his unit that a cease fire was in effect. He died just 6 hours before Germany surrendered.
v1Ky7 TIL that in 2014, a Spanish 20-year-old university student forged police and secret service documents, infiltrated the king’s coronation ceremony, shook his hand, and then impersonated a government adviser to broker a lucrative business deal.
yVjb8 TIL of gamma-ray bursts, immensely energetic explosions that occur when a giant star implodes and becomes a black hole. It can release as much energy in a few seconds as the Sun will in its entire 10-billion-year lifetime. It may also have caused a mass extinction on Earth 440 million years ago.