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TIL in the US, a private company can prosecute and incarcerate you themselves if they have enough money.

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Zn8G TIL on the stroke of midnight on Jan 1, 1900, the SS Warrimoo intentionally crossed the international date line exactly at the equator. This put the vessel in two different seasons and two different centuries at the same time.
gMGX4 TIL that the founder or Texas Roadhouse Restaurants, W. Kent Taylor, has no ties at all to the state of Texas and originally had dreams of opening a Colorado-themed eatery.
GwOj TIL: 1200 construction workers have died on-site since Qatar got the World Cup.
BrWxW TIL The record for the most Grammy Awards won in a lifetime is held by Georg Solti,a Hungarian-British conductor who conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 22 years.He has won a total of 31 competitive Grammy Awards out of 74 nominations and was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
61pW TIL Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years