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TIL Quarantine was first invented in Venice.

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D1rZD TIL Evel Knievel, perhaps the best known daredevil, ruined his career when he attacked a man with a baseball bat due an unflattering book. The victim was knocked unconscious and needed major surgery to repair his arm.Evel only served 6 months in jail but lost all his endorsements and contracts.
gMNA7 TIL that 'Star Spangled Banner' only became the anthem of the USA in 1931, after the huge outcry caused by Robert Ripley, who denounced in one of his famous "Believe it or Not" cartoons that the country, in fact, had no official anthem up until then.
gMWX8 TIL that bombing suspect, Michael Estes, got caught because he wanted to earn reward points on his supply purchase
PNGE TIL there’s a 37% chance that the Cascadia fault will produce an earthquake within in the next 50 years powerful enough to destroy the Pacific NW.
ly5G TIL that there’s a Japanese expression for the sudden urge to defecate when stepping into a bookstore, “the Mariko Aoki phenomenon”