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TIL that tear gas is illegal for use in war but legal for domestic riot control

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oRB7R TIL NYC could have been even larger. A referendum was held on the consolidation of NYC in 1894, which included residents of all the modern Boroughs as well as communities in Westchester County. Voters in Mount Vernon and Yonkers rejected consolidation.
v1yr7 TIL that in Ancient Greece, the famed slingshot mercenaries from Rhodes would often carve taunting messages into their rock projectiles, much like those written on modern-day bombs.
XEBL6 TIL It took Leonard Cohen 5 years to write 'Hallelujah'
JYyxQ TIL the Queen's Engineering Society's motto "Quis Dolor Cui Dolium" translates to "Who suffers who has a cask of wine?" This motto was devised in 1963 to lend some Latin dignity to the Society's informal English motto, "What the hell as long as there's free beer."
WkOOo TIL I learned in 1963 someone in east Berlin escaped to west Berlin by stealing a tank and driving it through the Berlin wall