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TIL The US Pledge Of Allegiance originally had a distinctive “salute” to use called the Bellamy salute. It was discontinued during WWII as it looked exactly like a Nazi salute.

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QJZme TIL The Italian child killer Massimo Bossetti was caught after his father, who had an affair with his mother, licked the back of a stamp 11 years ago before his death, which let the investigators to acquire his DNA. This lead to the arrest of his son, in the largest murder investigation in History.
eNX5 TIL In 2011, a team at the U.S. Department of Energy hacked into a one of the most commonly used electronic voting machines and concluded in their report: “anyone with $26 in parts and an eighth-grade science education would be able to manipulate the outcome of an election.”
OxPL TIL that PayPerView events can cost bars and restaurants thousands of dollars to show them, and PayPerView sends spies out to make sure non-paying establishments aren’t showing them and sues those that are caught.
D1ZDe TIL hat-makers in the 19th century regularly used mercury in the manufacturing of felt hats, which caused a high rate of poisoning and led to neurological damage like slurred speech, memory loss, and tremors. This was the inspiration for the Mad Hatter character in Alice in Wonderland.
J11Dm TIL that New Hampshire is the only state with no adult seatbelt laws. Seatbelts are only required for minors ages 17 and under in that state. According to 2017 data from the U.S. Department of Transportation, it also had the lowest percentage of seatbelt useage among the 50 states, at just 67.6%.