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TIL that until 1986 you didn’t even need to buy property in Alaska. You could build a house and it would have been yours…

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4kO7a TIL: William R. King is the only U.S. Vice President to take the oath of office on foreign soil. King had tuberculosis and had traveled to Cuba to regain his health. Since he couldn't be in DC to take the oath, Congress passed an act that allowed him to be sworn in near Matanzas, Cuba.
A4Jd TIL when AC/DC was accused of backmasking Satanic messages in “Highway To Hell”, guitarist Angus Young said “you didn’t need to play [the album] backwards, because we never hid [the messages]. We’d call an album Highway To Hell, there it was right in front of them.”
K1xw TIL after a female pedestrian in his community was killed by a red-light runner, a 74 year old Chinese man spent an entire day hurling bricks at bad drivers. He smashed over 30 red-light runners’ cars before the police asked him to stop.
dD8R9 TIL that Attila the Hun traveled so far and wide that there is even an early Viking poem from the 9th century (called an Edda), a revenge poem, that chronicles the apocryphal adventure of two Viking brothers who visit Attila's home, steal all his wealth and burn down his kingdom.
eJV6 TIL carrots do not actually help most people to see in the dark. This myth was propaganda used by the Royal Air Force to explain why their pilots had improved success during night air battles, but was actually used to disguise advances in radar technology.