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TIL Some schools in the US use "clip charts" in school to discourage poor behaviour

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J1YK1 TIL despite being home to Las Vegas, lotteries have been banned in Nevada since its statehood in 1864.
eQlE TIL Steven Spielberg directed a TV horror movie in 1972 called Something Evil - about a family in a Pennsylvania farmhouse inhabited by demons - that has never been released on home video.
E1nWd The dizzying story of Symphony of the Seas, the largest and most ambitious cruise ship ever built.
9wlK7 TIL Jimmy Carter signed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, the single largest expansion of protected lands in history which more than doubled the size of the National Parks System
gMZXL TIL that Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture is considered the first "diss track", as well as being the first recorded use of firearms in a piece of music. These both stem from the cannons at the song's climax, which were representative of the Napoleonic Army's own cannons being turned against them.