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TIL North and South Dakota are two different states because they couldn’t agree on where the capital should be.

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ZlGv TIL that Tom Waits was arrested in 1977 outside of a coffee shop in Los Angeles. Waits and a friend were trying to stop some men from bullying other patrons. The men were plainclothes police officers, and Waits and his friend were arrested for disturbing the peace.
7r7Jp TIL of Tom Dempsey, an NFL kicker for the New Orleans Saints, born with no toes on his kicking foot. He held an NFL record, standing for over 40 years, for kicking a 63 yard field goal. ESPN Sport Science found the modified shoe (that caused some controversy) actually increased his margin of error.
gRbA TIL of the town of Geel, Belgium which practices de-institutionalized mental health care. Doctors place patients with host families to live. The tradition of caring for the mentally ill dates back hundreds of years.
N7oYJ TIL that Joseph-Ignace Guillotin did not invent the guillotine. He opposed executions and when he was unable to have them abolished, he suggested "decapitation by means of a simple mechanism." as the most humane method. When the device was finally invented, it was given his name.
VMklk TIL the Molotov Cocktail was not invented by Russians, but instead by under-supplied Finns who used them as improvised anti-tank weapons against the USSR in the Winter War. The famous Finnish alcoholic beverage company ALKO actually switched to mass producing Molotov Cocktails during the war.