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TIL A man biked over 19,000 miles while vaping weed to disprove the lazy stoner myth

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a80G0 TIL Oklahoma jails women for a "failure to protect" law where if their SO is abusing children in her home and they fail to do anything about it they can be sent to prison. Typically the women's sentence is longer than the one who abused the children.
x6pe5 TIL in 2002 a student crashed a Cessna into a building, taking inspiration from 9/11
v1daD TIL about James Christopher Harrison, an Australian blood donor whose rare plasma composition has helped in the treatment of Rhesus disease. In May 2018 he made his final donation (1173rd) at the age of 81 after having saved 2.4m babies during his lifetime as a donor.
NXAOQ TIL that Mohammad Salman Hamdani, an EMT who responded to 9/11 and died in the process was treated like a suspect for 5 months. His house and records were raided. And even when his sacrifice was finally recognized his name was not included on the memorial for North tower victims.
OG6YX TIL Gordon Lightfoot was inspired to write "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" when he saw the name misspelled as "Edmond" in Newsweek magazine. He felt the misspelling dishonored the memory of the 29 men who died when the freighter sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975.