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TIL Dwarf-tossing in establishments that sell liquor is illegal in Florida

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9wpKp TIL there have been five great mass extinctions on earth and we may living through the sixth mass extinction
BVee TIL Otto von Bismarck once stated that when war came to Europe “it will be some damn fool thing in the Balkans that sets it off” thirty years before Franz Ferdinand was assassinated which kicked off the start of World War One.
bbp7 TIL that Ben Sliney, the man that ordered all commercial planes to be grounded on 9/11, did so on his first day on the job.
x6WB TIL The Soviet Union, in 1922, (under Vladimir Lenin) was one of the first countries in Europe to decriminalize homosexuality
7rjQx TIL that the residents of Glasgow, Scotland, donated more money to the UK's WW1 tank program than any other city. A year later, tanks were sent into Glasgow to help suppress a strike of workers demanding higher post-war wages. (The photo in this article is from the fundraising, not the strike)