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TIL that in 1909 the entire town of Ulysses, Kansas was relocated 3 miles west to escape their debts

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45xb TIL Lagunita Brewing Company has a beer called Undercover Shutdown Ale, which is named as such because after a stakeout of their brewery, no charges were filed because “no one was willing to sell it to them (officers), but everyone was willing to give it to them for free.”
awX1b TIL In 2016 several California Judges discarded over 66,000 arrest warrants because they felt it was unfair to arrest poor people simply because they could not pay fines.
enKD TIL Kevin Carter, who two months after he won a Pulitzer for a photo of a vulture stalking a starving child in the Sudan, killed himself and in his suicide note wrote, “I am haunted by the vivid memories…of starving or wounded children…”
W7OeY TIL it was legal to enslave children in Switzerland until 1981
wjNJ TIL that the CIA shut down access to the 23rd highest mountain in the world for nearly a decade in the ‘60s because they lost a nuclear powered missile detector in an avalanche