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TIL The 13,000 sq. miles National Radio Quiet Zone in West Virginia does not allow cell phones, cordless phones, WiFi, digital cameras, automatic door openers, or gasoline engines. Pocahontas County, pop. 8,719, is the home to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Green Bank Telescope.

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gmy9 TIL that in the UK, restaurants MUST supply free tap water if they serve alcohol.
a8Mey TIL that gunfights were still legal in the US less than 90 years ago
owGK TIL Batman beat the Hulk in a special cross-over by throwing a can of knock-out-gas at the Hulk’s head, then hitting him in the solar plexus which caused him to breathe in the gas.
NloM TIL daytime fireworks are made up of colored smoke so they can be seen during the day.
4oNw TIL in June 1939, just 3 months before Hitler would invade Poland (and England would declare war on Germany), USA had an army that was smaller than the army of Portugal