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TIL blasphemy and swearing are illegal in Michigan

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yVyMv TIL In some places in history counterfeitting coins was punishable with being boiled alive in oil
oBg5K TIL that the 1993 film Demolition Man jokes that Arnold Schwarzenegger serves as President of the United States in the future. Coincidentally, a day short of exactly ten years after the film's release, Schwarzenegger was elected as Governor of California.
LEM9 TIL the NFL’s use of pink is a marketing ploy to attract female viewers and hardly any money goes to cancer research
JYwbl TIL soft-shelled crabs are just regular crabs removed from water after moulting to prevent their shells from hardening and not a species of crab with soft shells
ADjmB TIL that a sheepherder in Wyoming built a cabin out of dinosaur bones he found on the ground, not knowing that’s what they were until a paleontologist stumbled upon the place in 1897.