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Today I learned it’s a federal crime in the United States to clog up the toilet in a national forest.

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A47x TIL that gaslighting was used as early as WWII by Nazi Germany as one of the Zersetzung psychological manipulation warfare techniques to destroy and drive political opponents to psychosis and suicide.
M70AW TIL that Joseph Guillemot, a victim of an accident that left his right lung permanently damaged by mustard gas during World War I with his heart located on the right-hand side of his chest went on to win the 5000m at the 1920 Summer Olympics
rax1 TIL 90% of the pumpkins grown in the U.S. are raised within a 90-mile radius of Peoria, Illinois
bOAp TIL Sean Connery was once pulled over and fined by a british police officer for speeding. The Officer’s name was Sergeant James Bond.
0lGA TIL that in 2015, a husband and wife were the only two people left residing in Spencer Mountain, NC and they elected themselves to the town council via write in vote.