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TIL that during WW1 the British government outlawed the act of buying somebody else a drink with the “No treating order”

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Y94G TIL there are an estimated 50,000 undocumented Irish living in the U.S., with 30,000 of them thought to be in New York City. One Irish-born neighborhood in the Bronx is estimated at having 40% of its immigrants as undocumented.
m1kBv TIL the province of Guangdong in southern China has 126 million people in an area smaller than the state of Missouri.
VMVl0 TIL that viruses can infect and kill bacteria
OVpe TIL that two black men, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, have been in solitary confinement in Louisiana for over 40 years despite despite lack of evidence for their alleged crime.
YpMjd TIL about Yasuteru Yamada, a retired engineer who after watching the news coverage of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster, organized a group of 200+ fellow retirees and volunteered to go to the site and assist in the cleanup so the younger generation didn't have to and risk exposure to radiation.