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TIL The entire nation of Qatar has the same IP address

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OGErX TIL that in 1989, Patricia Stallings was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her first son via antifreeze poisoning. and had another son who was taken to foster care but was diagnosed with MMA, a genetic disorder. It was found that the first son also had MMA, and Stallings was released.
nWGk7 TIL That the reason most people did not smile in old photographs was due to long exposure times, ranging anywhere from 20 seconds to 20 mins the subjects had to hold perfectly still.
KWNE TIL there were widespread homosexual relationships among Australian and American soldiers stationed in New Guinea during World War II
lodmr TIL of the Stockbridge Militia, a Native American military unit from Stockbridge, Massachusetts, which was the first group of Native Americans to fight for the cause of American independence during the Revolutionary War.
vxKK TIL Voltaire never wrote “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” - Evelyn Beatrice Hall wrote the famous sentence in Friends of Voltiere in 1906