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TIL that despite it being common practice for casinos to ban card counters, a 1979 New Jersey Supreme Court decision banned all Atlantic City casinos from doing so, making them the only state in America where a casino is forbidden from throwing out skilled blackjack players.

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16b6D TIL that the film Top Gun: Maverick was actively supported and influenced by the United States Department of Defense and the United States Navy to present the U.S. military in a positive light and aid in recruitment and retention.
PYoEe TIL that the story of the Chernobyl power plant didn’t end with the tragedy of 1986. There was actually a second fire that broke out on Reactor 2 in 1991, and it wasn’t until 2000 that the last operating reactor was fully shut down.
p8dxA TIL of Barbara Newhall Folett, a child genius born in 1914 who released her first novel at the age of 12, and her second when she was 14. At the age of 18 she married an unfaithful man and fell into depression. She vanished when she was 25, and was never seen again.
nj9d TIL there is a haunted island in Mexico covered in dolls. a little girl drowned in the river awhile back, and the owner drowned in the same place in 2001. natives say the possessed dolls killed him. they also say the dolls open their eyes and move on their own…
Bg6GW TIL that the only mosquito in Iceland is preserved in Institute of Natural History. It was caught in the 1980s by University of Iceland biologist Gilsi Mar Gislason in the cabin of an Icelander airplane