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TIL Treason is not only a federal crime in the USA. Just over half of the states have their own treason laws. Of only 30 individuals who have ever been convicted of treason in the USA, 0 federal convictions ended with execution, while 5 of the 6 successful state convictions ended in execution.

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5YGjP TIL The Hubble Space Telescope has already required 4 servicing missions (1993, 1997, 1999, 2002). The fifth mission, that was scheduled in 2005, was canceled following the Columbia disaster (2003). Hubble's problems began when it was discovered that its optical system had a flawed mirror.
Z8mea TIL: Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake that does not touch the Canadian province of Ontario, and Lake Ontario is the only Great Lake that does not touch the U.S. state of Michigan.
Pa0L TIL that Bill Murray really wants to do Zombieland 2 (even more than playing FDR or starring in Ghostbusters 3)
P1KGn TIL In the 1960s, Washington D.C.'s poor areas were plagued by severe rat problems until Julius Hobson began catching them by trapping enormous rats, and attaching the cage to his car’s roof and drove to affluent districts where he warned of setting the rodents free, spurring rat control measures.
bR69 TIL that in the summer of 1987, 22 tons of marijuana was thrown in the sea from a ship chased by the DEA near Brazilian coast. The high quality weed, stashed in closed metal cans, reached Brazilian beaches. The weed was found and smoked in the summer known as “the summer of the can”.