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TIL that in Oregon, a citizen may issue a traffic ticket to law enforcement officers

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LQb00 TIL a young couple in Japan divorce and remarry each other every 3 years to take turns using their family names, all because they can't come into agreement on which last name to use.
p8klA TIL The Breidings Home in KY was set on fire due to a kitchen accident, the whole family escaped but to their surprise the infant daughter was missing. As they panicked they were relieved to see their dog pulling the infant out to safety by her diapers.
BVDk TIL in 2012, a petition was created urging the U.S. government to create a Death Star, which gained more than 25,000 signatures, enough to qualify for an official response.
X0DMD TIL about Wallace "Wally" Bowers. Struggling to support four kids and a wife dying of cancer, he picked up additional weekend work for a logging company. He was killed during the eruption of Mount St. Helens of May 1980. His wife died three months later from her illness.
6poX TIL: The British used to tell their orphans were going on a ‘day trip’, only to put them on a boat for six weeks and forcibly relocate them to Australia