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TIL that a South Carolina woman was fined $445 for having “truck nutz” on her vehicle.

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0wPZp TIL the HIV epidemic was ignored as a 'gay disease' in the USA until a handful of straight people with the disease received national attention. One of them, a kid named Ryan White, refused the label of "innocent victim" as he worried it implied that gay HIV patients were somehow "guilty."
og7r TIL Lyudmila Pavlyuchenko is regarded as the most successful female sniper in history, credited with 309 kills during WWII
69ge8 TIL that in 2006, FBI agents attempted to arrest prison guards at the Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee, after having learnt the guards were trading drugs for sex with female inmates. One of the guards opened fire with a personal handgun, killing one agent and wounding another.
XjL6 TIL Louis XI of France once pardoned a man sentenced to death on condition that he serve as a guinea pig for a gallstone operation.
mxlOP TIL in 1870, the corrupt leader of NYC’s city Hall, Boss Tweed offered the New York Times the equivalent of $100 million to not publish their expose on his political corruption.