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TIL that treason is the only crime defined in the United States Constitution, but it is almost never prosecuted.

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N7MVb TIL Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, rewrote her novel word for word when she had dementia in her later years, unaware she had already written her most influential work
loZE5 TIL the Ivanpah solar plant in the deserts of California released 68,676 metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2015
jNDYQ TIL: In Massachusetts, the minimum age for marriage is 12 for females and 14 for males.
a8NQM TIL that in 1966 an engineer with limited flying experience inadvertently took off in an English fighter jet after engaging the afterburner by mistake
8eLBb TIL about "General Average," a 19th century maritime law requiring all stakeholders (cargo owners, shippers, etc.) to share losses if part of a ship or cargo is sacrificed in an emergency to save the whole.