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TIL that there is a disputed island located on the Atlantic coast of North America that is claimed by both Canada and the United States. Since both Canada and the United States claim sovereignty, anyone born there can claim dual citizenship.

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GYdgE TIL Boxing trainer Cus D'Amato was criticised for being a proponent for the peek-a-boo style of boxing; it was believed that an efficient attack could not be launched from it. He coached Mike Tyson later in his career in this exact style, who would become the youngest world heavyweight titleholder.
E7GV TIL that MIT students found out that by buying $600,000 worth of lottery tickets from Massachusetts’ Cash WinAll lottery they could get a 10-15% return on investment. In 5 years they managed to game $8 million out of the lottery through this method.
nr4d TIL there is a tribe called the Sentinelese who live on a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. For thousands of years they have refused all contact with the outside world. Using only stones and arrows, they have successfully repelled Arabs, Persians, Indians, Europeans, and a fucking helicopter.
vyRj TIL that in 1966 Australia became the last democratic country to lift the ban on married women in the public service. The Commonwealth Public Service Act 1902 stated that every female officer was “deemed to have retired from the Commonwealth service upon her marriage”.
gMjn4 TIL multiboxing in gaming can be traced back to as far as April 1992, with the TinTin++, a MUD client made up of 700 lines of C code and which allowed playing and botting multiple characters. The Merc (MUD) developers discussed a programmatic way to detect multiboxing on Usenet in 1993.