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TIL that spitting in public is punishable by fines up to £500 in the UK

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D1nxe TIL, the last time a Senator was expelled from the Senate was in 1862 when three senators were removed for being Confederate sympathizers
9wVN6 TIL about the Levon Affair, a false flag operation in Egypt committed by Israeli intelligence. The bombings were to be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood. Incriminating evidence was found in the apartment of one of the agents whose bomb prematurely ignited.
Jjyv TIL that no one knows what the Greeks called themselves. “Greek” was simply a name the Romans called them for their surrounding geological location.
8eJwZ TIL the Olympic Village of the 1980 Winter Games held in Lake Placid became a Federal prison
R7Blw TIL In the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) the ship Cotopaxi was discovered in the Gobi desert, presumably left there by Aliens. At that time the ship was believed to have been lost in the Bermuda Triangle in 1925, but was discovered in 1985 in Florida, and not verified until 2020.