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TIL that all lighthouses on the US coastline have been fully automated for roughly 30 years

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QJV9E TIL on October 31, 2011, a baby girl named Danica May Camacho, was chosen by the United Nations to symbolically represent the 7 billionth person on earth. To mark this global-population milestone, October 31 was named Seven Billion Day.
160YO TIL about Klaus Barbie, a Nazi war criminal hiding in Bolivia after the war, was tricked into revealing his true identity during a fake interview by being asked a question in French, a language he wasn't supposed to understand.
BgRZd TIL that in the Bhutan democracy was forced upon people. King made a reforms that removed monarch as a head of state, made a mandatory abdication of kings at the age of 65 and introduced free elections. People were reluctant about these changes but accepted them because they came from the king
yVXM8 TIL that europeans invented racism
R7ga7 TIL in 2004, an assistant high school principal in Michigan tried to frame a student by planting pot in his locker, then calling police to do a locker search. When no drugs were found, he laughingly told police what he had done. He later resigned and became the subject of a criminal probe