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TIL of Gödel's Loophole, an "inner contradiction" in the Constitution of the United States which would permit the American democracy to be legally turned into a dictatorship.

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NXp9N TIL that if you laid out an adult's circulatory system, the blood vessels would total over 60,000 miles. That equals more than twice around the world.
mYrR TIL: The mountain range that the Russian meteor hit today was also the site of the “Dyatlov Pass Incident”, one of the strangest unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century.
0wZKN TIL in 2011 a Thai army helicopter crached in the jungle on its way to retrieve the bodies in a Thai army helicopter that crashed trying to retrieve the bodies of a first army helicopter crash - 17 killed
yQl18 TIL Bill The Butcher (Gangs of NY) was head of the Bowery Boys gang who's territory was Bowery street today. Mostly made up of firefighters literally fighting other gangs to have control over putting out fires. Fights between gangs would often break out and the fires were sometimes never put out.
WLZN TIL Cher is the only artist to have a Billboard number one hit in each of the past 6 decades