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TIL Every new issue of Hustler Magazine has been sent to all 535 Members of Congress since 1983 by owner Larry Flynt

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jNGKM TIL moon is moving 4 cm away from earth every year. In 50 billion years, both will be tidelocked in an orbit in which both will show only one face to each other.
nerjG TIL that John P. O'Neill, counter terror expert and head of FBI National Security Division who spent many years investigating Al Qaeda, retired in early August 2001 and started his new job later that same month - as Head of Security at the World Trade Center. He died there on September 11.
bDma TIL All 5,000 miles of the US/Canada border is cleared for 20 feet so that no trees grow.
yQgOJ TIL that Aboriginal Australians have the highest incarceration rate in the world.
d8On9 TIL that in 427BC Athens sent a ship to Mytilene which had instructions to kill all adult men in the city-state. The next day, Athenians voted to change their decision - a second ship was dispatched. Racing through the night, it reached Mytilene just in time to prevent the massacre from happening.