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TIL that US Law does not protect speech that is “likely to provoke the average person to retaliation”

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yVJRv TIL that the largest rainforest in Southern Africa was unknown to the outside world until it was discovered via Google Earth satellite images in 2011. It sits on top of a “410-foot sheer rock protuberance”, making it virtually untouched by humans until recent research trips.
0wY9M TIL Police in Anderson, California issued and trained their officers to use nunchucks
kJae7 TIL that James Doohan was 54 when he married 18-year-old Wende Braunberger, who he met when she was 17.
b6rPZ TIL: George Bredig escaped the Nazi regime when Princeton offered him a job in 1940. Scientists and professors who did not swear an oath to the regime were fired. He managed to save his research and made significant contributions to electro chemistry. The Nazis lost 26% of their university chemists.
6gjX TIL that the man who designed Saddam Hussein’s bunker was the grandson of the woman who designed Hitler’s.