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TIL that Money Laundering wasn't a federal offense in the United States until 1986

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KL7R TIL Queen Victoria’s reign of 63 years and 7 months were longer than that of any other british monarch in history and the longest of any female monarch in history.
9nNp TIL that Under Armour, an American company, uses a non-American spelling of “armour” (with a “u”) not because it has ties to somewhere like the UK or Canada but because the founder was “trying to get a cool toll-free phone number.”
Me0vA TIL when the Israeli military developed their battle rifle, the Galil, they included a bottle opener built into the bottom of the gun. Previous guns had been damaged by Israeli soldiers who kept using their guns to open bottled beverages with their guns.
JYLGQ TIL that the average person meets around 11 murderers in their life.
oygL TIL a crime watch meeting in Florida was interrupted by a falling 75lb bale of cocaine that had been ejected from a drug smuggling plane flying overhead