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TIL Pavel Durov lost his company (Russian Facebook) after refusing to hand over data of Ukrainian protesters to Russia’s security agencies. He also donated a million dollars to the Wikimedia Foundation.

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oRrg8 TIL under the Alien and Sedition acts of 1798 a man was fined $100 for wishing the canon firing a salute would “hit [President John] Adams in the ass.”
VMxdm TIL that the Elan "therapeutic" school, infamous for torturing its students who weren't allowed to contact the outside world, had a form of punishment where well behaved students would beat up poorly behaved ones. One student punished in this way was killed. The school covered it up for years.
YOVB TIL Dr. Gay Hitler, son of George Washington Hitler, was a local dentist in Circleville, Ohio, and served the community from 1922 through 1946. Many roads in the area still contain the word ‘Hitler’ through this family.
9XAM TIL that upon reaching the Pacific Ocean in 1805, Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery held a vote to decide where to set up their camp. This vote included a black man (Clark’s slave, York) and a Native American woman (Sacagawea), with everyone’s vote having equal weight.
dDrwK TIL: 2 and 3 toed sloths are more distant evolutionary relatives than humans and chimpanzees, 30m vs 6m years