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TIL it is illegal for teachers to strike in 38 states in the US

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Jlvl TIL there are dozens of diggers buried under luxury homes in London because it is cheaper to leave them there than to get them out and sell them on.
yQb8a TIL in 1956 an F-11 test pilot inexperienced with the consequences of supersonic flight, literally ran into his own gunfire and shot himself down
VMpgB TIL: To avoid using the German sounding "hamburger" during WW2, Americans resorted to calling it a "liberty steak"
woG01 TIL that paintball was inspired by the 1924 short story The Most Dangerous Game, about an aristocrat who targets humans for sport.
WkwOo TIL 3–15% of alcoholics commit suicide, and over 50% of all suicides are associated with alcohol or drug dependence, due to alcohol causing physiological distortion of brain chemistry, as well as social isolation.