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TIL that a war was almost started because of a single tree.

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8e1gV TIL the federal chemical weapons ban was used against a woman who tried to poison her neighbor due to an affair and the case went to the US Supreme Court in "Bond v. United States"
ne9yP TIL about the origins of US whistleblower protections. In 1777, 10 soldiers reported their commanding officers for torture. Instead of branding the soldiers as traitors, the Founding Fathers passed a law protecting them and future whistleblowers.
WkBk9 TIL Multiple courts in America have condemned the use of the conjunction "and/or." One judge called it " that Janus-faced verbal monstrosity, neither word nor phrase, the child of a brain of someone too lazy or too dull to know what he did mean"
9vb6 TIL Researchers in Tokyo have developed a mirror that tweaks the viewer’s reflection in real-time to make it look like they’re smiling. The projected application for this tech is for use in shopping mall bathrooms, in hopes that happier shoppers will buy more.
Z891Y TIL After reading how Rosa Parks was robbed and assaulted in her Detroit home at the age of 81, Little Caesars founder Mike Ilitch quietly paid her rent for over a decade until she passed.