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TIL: SEGA stands for Service Games.. and was founded by Americans..

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VMBPD TIL a vigilante in Bristol, England has been sneaking out at night for 10 years to fix grammar and punctuation errors on signs such as “Herberts the Bakery,” using stickers and an eight-foot-long tool he calls the “apostrophizer.”
yVLAw TIL in 1861, Abraham Lincoln suspended “the writ of habeas corpus” which gave military authorities the power to arrest and hold Union dissenters without indictment or arraignment.
5Vv7R TIL that Margaret Fleming (1980–c.2000), who had learning difficulties, was murdered by her carers Edward Cairney and Avril Jones in Inverkip, Scotland. She had not been seen for 17 years before her disappearance was investigated. Cairney and Jones were convicted in 2019; her body was never found.
wokxY TIL that tattooing is illegal in Cuba
X0PyE TIL After Neil Armstrong died, his wife Carol cleaned his closet and found a cloth bag filled with souvenirs he brought back from the moon, including a movie camera from inside the lunar module and waist tether. Congress recently passed a law approving astronauts can take unneeded equipment home