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TIL that women can walk around topless in New York

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0M6j TIL “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” is not a quote from Voltaire. It comes from Kevin Alfred Strom, a white supremacist and convicted pedophile.
neGVB TIL Billy Joel, 71 years old, did not graduate from high school until 1992, 25 years after he left his high school, when got finally earned his missing credits. He participated, gown and all, in the grad ceremony with kids less than half his age. It's never too late.
enx5 TIL Suicide rates for war veterans are at a rate of nearly one per day this year.
R75v9 TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien first saw combat in the second week of the Battle of the Somme. One of his closest friends, Robert Gilson, had been killed on the first day.
x6kw0 TIL about Maggie Gee and the WASPs, badass female WWII pilots who performed unrecognized military service