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TIL That Sikhs of both genders can lawfully carry a concealed knife in public.

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5Z7R TIL that Cartman from South Park described independent films are just about “gay cowboys eating pudding” a full 7 years before independent film “Brokeback Mountain” came out.
AD6p7 TIL: Human hair rejected by wigmakers and sent from hair salons is being used to create oil adsorbing booms for ocean oil spills. Hair can adsorb 3-9 times its own weight in oil.
N7kdE TIL that there is a 29.97fps frame rate, because when color TV was first introduced, the color data couldn't be included without increasing the bandwidth, so instead they decided to remove one frame from the video every now and then to free up data.
rNk0M TIL the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in 1975, and the song was recorded one month later
Z8EwQ TIL of the "End-of-History Illusion". The perception that you have reached a maximum of personal growth, your potential, and that no new personal maturing will happen in the future.