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TIL that the US still circulates and mints new pennies in 2025

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rRDJd TIL in 1905, in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, the Supreme Court ruled that states could enforce rules that restrain individual liberty, in favor of conserving the safety of the community
e0XBL TIL about the “Kids for cash” scandal where two judges were paid by for profit prisons to send kids to jail.
geGX TIL the American Army during WWI employed champion Skeet Shooters to protect the trenches by shooting enemy grenades out of midair and deflecting them
p8VDN TIL of the 2009 Satellite Collision: the first time two satellites collided at hypervelocity
wLYYM TIL that when the NFL football team Seattle Seahawks invited a retired 4 star general to their facility, Seattles head coach Pete Carroll blitzed him with questions about whether the 9/11 attacks “had been planned or faked” by the government.