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TIL that a man in Alabama was convicted of “being drunk on a public highway” after police officers arrested him, drunk, at his home and took him onto the highway (conviction was later overturned)

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QJpBM TIL that the smallest insect is smaller than the biggest bacteria.
1aQBW TIL that during the occupation of Denmark in World War II, 7200 Jews, aided by local resistance fighters, escaped Nazi internment. Of the Jewish community living there, only 500 were captured, and only 51 did not survive.
KKBa TIL New Amsterdam was given to the Duke of York in 1664 as an 18th birthday present from his father. He then renamed the city New York.
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