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TIL because NATO's Article 6 covers only member states' islands in the North Atlantic north of the Tropic of Cancer, plus French Algeria. An attack on the U.S. state of Hawaii would not trigger the treaty, but an attack on the other 49 would.

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v1yAD TIL map makers will often add fake streets, or even sometimes an entire fictitious town, to their maps in order to catch copyright violators who steal their work.
KOjdG TIL about the term 'gamaroosh' used by English television personality and necrophiliac Sir Jimmy Savile, meaning going down on corpses to muck about and have oral sex with them.
yQbZX TIL of Clarence Elkins, who was wrongly imprisoned for the murder of his mother-in-law and assault of his 6-year-old niece. His wife worked hard to exonerate him and found a likely suspect who was in the same jail as him. Clarence collected a cigarette he’d used. His DNA matched.
Z8xPY TIL a California school district banned dictionaries after a student who was searching for the word "orangutan" came across the definition for "oral sex." They pulled dictionaries from the school for having "age inappropriate" words.
kGyE TIL Jimmy Carter was the only President to have ever lived in public housing. His father died shortly after Carter had led a team disassembling a Canadian nuclear reactor, so he went home to run the family farm. A drought killed his first crop and drove him into debt…but eventually he made it.