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TIL hundreds of unwed couples are arrested per year in Florida for living together while unmarried.

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XAMr TIL the castle from the Rocky Horror Picture Show is now a hotel that you can spend the night in!
vDx4 TIL Einstein refused surgery, saying: “I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.” - he then died the next day
aAON TIL that Joaquin Phoenix rolled his car, & a man tapped on his window & said “Just relax.” Phoenix replied “I’m fine. I am relaxed.” The man said “No you’re not,” & stopped Phoenix from lighting a cigarette while gas was leaking into the car. The man was famed German film director Werner Herzog.
1a788 TIL: The oldest mummies in the world are turning into black slime. Over 100 Chinchorro mummies found near the Atacama Desert in Chile are turning gelatinous due to bacterial growth associated with increasing humidity. The mummies date to ~5000 BC
VM4J4 TIL that one part of Operation Anadyr, the Soviet Deception plan preceding the Cuban Missile Crisis, involved giving Cuban exiles in the USA correct information on the shipment of nukes and missiles, guessing (correctly) that the CIA would perceive them as lies to encourage an invasion.