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TIL that in 1958 interracial marriage was a felony in Virginia
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TIL that some elevators have a mode called Sabbath service which let people use the elevator without pressing a button
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TIL that in 2015 a star previously 100,000 times brighter than the sun disappeared
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TIL the murderer Dr. Crippen fled to Quebec from London in 1910 after being investigated for the murder of his wife. The Chief Inspector of the case Walter Dew was alerted and reached Quebec before Crippen. Dew greeted Crippen as he got off of his ship and promptly arrested him.
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TIL part of Norway and Finland's boarder was determined by surveyors who chose convenient walking paths to place border markers rather than use prominent mountain peaks. Thus the highest point in Finland is on the slope of a Norwegian mountain.
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TIL that Melbourne, Australia has the largest Greek speaking population in the world outside of Greece and Cyprus. Melbourne is sometimes referred to as Greece’s ‘third city’ after Athens and Thessaloniki.