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TIL that Uri Geller bought a small island in Scotland because he believes - among other things - ancient Egyptian treasure is buried there

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R5089 TIL the only fatalities of WW2 in the continental US were from balloons. The Fu-Go balloon bomb is considered the first intercontinental weapon system.
8a6nP TIL there is no constitutional requirement for a U.S. State to hold presidential elections. A State legislature can theoretically just handpick its presidential electors.
9jOm TIL when Edwin Edwards ran for governor against the grand wizard of the KKK, David Duke, people were worried that Edwards would lose because of his indictments for fraud and bribery. Faced with the alternative, people created bumper stickers that read, “Vote for the crook, it’s important.”
J1wLQ TIL that even after a quarter of a century, red deer on the border between the Czech Republic and old West Germany still do not cross the divide. During the Cold War, electric fences made the Czech-German boundary impossible to pass; red deer are intent on maintaining this old boundary.
MA0W TIL unarmed citizen crime patrollers called the Guardian Angels - set up to fight subway crime in NYC in 1979 - faked incidents with “muggers” and “rapists” in order to gain publicity.