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TIL SCOTUS, in 1995, ruled States setting term limits on Congress was unconstitutional

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vW0R TIL Paz Dylan pranked the Grammy Museum when he snuck in and hung a series of informational wall display pieces featuring strange descriptions and photographs of himself eating tacos. Awarding himself song of the year, album of the year, and best new artist of 2013, they hung unnoticed for a month
9Y1Z7 TIL not all gum trees are Eucalyptus trees
1847 TIL Two baby girls were switched at birth in 1931 at the Leiden University Medical Center. Suspicions didn’t rise until two decades later, when the girls met at a wedding and wondered at their mutual likeness to each other’s family.
jNpbE TIL that there's a town in Peru that holds a Christmastime festival that ends with people of all ages ending in public fistfights. The purpose is to settle grudges that have built up over the year.
5VMgn TIL that, in the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War, a group of West Virginia coal miners fought local and federal authorities at the Battle of Blair mountain in 1921 and were even bombed with gas and gunpowder.