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TIL In Texas, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, it is legal to kill Bigfoot if you find it. It would be considered a non-protected nongame animal.

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9Rpr TIL in 1933, a University of Alabama professor voluntarily allowed a black widow spider to bite him as scientists recorded him suffering in agony for three days. Before this there were skeptics who believed black widows were not dangerous to humans.
yV5av TIL Women have been legally allowed to go topless in public in New York City since 1992
W7QBB TIL in traditional Christian theology there are four sins "which cry out to heaven for vengeance" : murder, sodomy, oppression of the poor, and defrauding a worker of his wages.
1a65O TIL The fossil record tells us nothing about how sightless animals first came to see the world.
o5aL TIL Cockroaches are so repulsed by humans that if they’re touched by a human, not only do they run away, but they wash themselves.