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TIL this year (2025) will be the only perfect square year of my lifetime

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0GY1 TIL burning man is destroying the only suitable land speed record track in the US and is causing significant environmental damage to the fragile desert
8eG7X TIL that there is a town under water in the state of Maine because a greedy power company flooded it for their own use and when not all homeowners agreed to sell, they flooded it anyway.
gWMD TIL In Kansas, if a woman commits rape, and becomes pregnant because of it, she can sue the victim for child support
MeWB7 TIL about the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which allowed 4 media conglomerates to buy out all successful indie hip-hop labels, eventually making hip-hop less about art & social change & more about crime, gang life, & sex as those sold more records, according to Prof Tricia Rose of Brown Uni.
m1XDY TIL DST was conceptualized by Ben Franklin in a satire piece about saving money on candles, proposed in the 1890's by and entomologist wanting more daylight to bug-hunt, implimented in WWI as an energy saving measure, and is now used to provide workers with more daylight.