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TIL The Massachusetts Bay Company had a “Stubborn Child Law” that allowed parents to put their defiant children to death

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m1rQp TIL about the May 18,1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, which was the most disastrous volcanic eruption to occur in the contiguous United States since the much smaller 1915 eruption of Lassen Peak in California.
Wkw9d TIL There was a point when plants made so much oxygen that nearly everything died. This event was called the Great Oxygen Event, but also referred to as the Oxygen Holocaust.
D1YBv TIL there exists in Japan an arcade game where you're goal is to pound and flip a table in frustration using a tiny plastic table.
EgDEV TIL pretty much the entire optical industry is controlled by a single Italian company
E1PBX TIL about a 50+ year old non-profit called The Society for Creative Anachronism, which is an international living history group with the aim of studying and recreating mainly European Medieval cultures and their histories before the 17th century.