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TIL it's illegal to cheat on your spouse in Virginia

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OpgX TIL IBM sold a smartphone with a touchscreen display input that could send emails and run third party apps in 1994
1XRr TIL that there is a phenomenon in Venezuela called “Everlasting Storm” in which a lake hosts thousands of lightning strikes every hour 260 days per year
4QvR TIL: Freddie Mercury dressed Lady Diana in drag and snuck her into a gay club.
d8PXr TIL that Colin Campbell Ross, an Australian, was executed in 1922 for the murder of a child (a case which was sensationalised by Keith - father of Rupert - Murdoch's newspaper). After the original evidence was tested for DNA in 1998, the case returned to court, and he was finally pardoned in 2008
VBYrZ TIL about Pino Puglisi, an anti mafia Sicilian Catholic Priest who worked steer kids away from and denounce organized crime. He was shot outside of his home, last words to the hitmen were "Ive been expecting you"