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TIL an Auburn University graduate, James Brooks, was discovered to be illiterate after he couldn’t read court documents regarding him not paying child support.

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BrR6y TIL of the first transcontinental trip across the United States in an automobile. In 1903 two men and a dog used 800 gallons of gas and spent/lost $8000 over 63 days to travel from San Francisco to New York in a car with no roof or windshield to win a $50 bet that they never collected.
W8JL TIL about Saint Patrick’s Batallion, a group of 700 Irish and African-Americans who rebelled during America’s invasion of Mexico and fought on the Mexican side. A 1999 film about them was censored by its US distributor and never shown.
gMLM4 TIL that Singapore still use caning extensively as a form of punishment in schools, prisons and the government.
VMQK4 TIL in Kentucky that five million gallons of the "angel's share" from bourbon evaporates every year, which is also covering the state in a black fungus called "Baudoinia" that feeds off the ethanol vapor released by liquor as it ages.
deR9 TIL it is legal in 25 states for police to detain persons and request such persons to identify themselves, and arrest them if they do not.