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TIL Harvard once spent$ 100M on vineyards

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xVMbg TIL to get around a law forbidding state banishment, Georgia judges can ban criminals from 158 of the 159 state counties. They send people to Echols County which is so boring, criminals choose to leave the state rather than live there
j64NN TIL of the "Order of the Occult hand," a secret society of journalists that slip the meaningless and telltale phrase "It was as if some occult hand had…" in print as an inside joke.
epRaD TIL 46 U.S. states allow you to use any name you want whenever you want as long as there is no fraud intended. Your consistent use of a preferred name is expected to build up unofficial records showing it. Changing your name through a court is only needed to force institutions to recognize a change.
V458 TIL there are only eight species of bear in the world.
x6O55 TIL that in 1950, the Italian town of Colobraro declared itself “the town of the living dead” after a local curse and started wearing white sheets at night to protect themselves from misfortune.