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TIL 28% of Millenials and Gen Z either agree or are unsure that the Earth is flat

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GBD1 TIL Queen Mary of England was gifted a 1:12 scale doll house in 1924. It had working lights, books that were specially written by writers for the library, bottles filled with the appropriate drinks in the wine cellar, and model cars made by Rolls Royce. Even the toilets had working plumbing.
KYjja TIL about the Death on the High Seas Act, a United States federal law, which requires a shipowner to compensate a dead crewman’s family for wages he would have earned had he worked a normal life.
XEe8E TIL in Washington State, it is illegal to kill Bigfoot/Sasquatch... despite it being a fictional species.
MBBV TIL two men were brought up on federal hacking charges when they exploited a bug in video poker machines and won half a million dollars. His lawyer argued, “All these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push.” The case was dismissed.
VEK4 TIL there is a Nepali boy who plans on meditating forever, and has already meditated for years.