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

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Q8JL TIL that dogs years are not 7:1 to human years, as it is generally thought.
LQjgm TIL in 1948 a state of emergency was declared in the British colony of Malaya (now Malaysia) as Malayan rebels were attacking rubber plantations and mines. The insurgency was described as an 'emergency' because insurers would not have compensated plantation owners if it had been labelled a 'war'.
kJaW1 TIL about Ban Khun Samut Chin, a village in Thailand that has suffered 1.1- 2km shoreline retreat and has only 4 students left at the local school. It is unknown how long locals can keep living there.
ked7 TIL in 1999 Ted Turner proposed a one-time tax on the rich. He proposed a 14.25% tax on the net worth of all Americans worth 10 million or more. It would have gathered $5.7 Trillion dollars. Due to the growth of wealth among the super-rich, today it would gather $15 Trillion.
b96DN TIL Christopher Nolan had a cornfield grown for the farm scenes in Interstellar, he later sold the corn for a profit.