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TIL tanning beds have been classified as a Class One carcinogen by the World Health Organization, the same as plutonium, and Brazil has banned tanning salons and the sale or purchase of tanning equipment outright. 30 US States have some restrictions.

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KYXdB TIL that Billie Joe Armstrong once dropkicked a guy in the middle of a Green Day concert after he saw him roughing up a young girl. He stopped the show and challenged him to a fight before jumping into the crowd.
kAA1 TIL: According to the federal census of 1830, free blacks owned more than 10,000 slaves in Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina, and Virginia.
ADD07 TIL host Ray Combs’ last Family Feud episode ended in a contestant getting 0 points in Fast Money. Combs told the contestant, “Thought I was a loser until you walked up here, you made me feel like a man!” Combs then walked off during the end credits and drove home without saying good-bye to anyone.
lonMG TIL Senator Joe McCarthy was a heroin addict in his later years, and the US government paid for his heroin
1aPO7 TIL about the Chicago Spire, a planned 2000 foot high skyscraper which would have been the highest building in the Americas, and 2nd tallest in the world. It would have looked like a "tall twisting tree" or "blade of grass." It was cancelled in 2008 due to the economic crisis.