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TIL Vermont, Hawaii, Alaska, and Maine have all banned billboards.

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QWGk TIL that in addition to 6 million Jews, about an equal number of Christians, Catholics and Homosexuals were killed in Nazi concentration camps.
or58 TIL the risk of terrorism is statistically insignificant. You are far more likely to die slipping in the bathtub, getting struck by lightning, or drowning in the bathtub.
L8gZ TIL that “peruse” is it’s own antonym, defined as (a) to examine in detail or (b) to look over in a casual manner.
W7dgA TIL before his comedy career, Chevy Chase was a drummer in the college band The Leather Canary, a group with Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, who would later go on to form Steely Dan.
j7op TIL: That the Czechs who worked in the gun factories for the Germans, during wwii, would deliberately bend the sights out of shape, to make the rifles inaccurate. Skip to 05:30 minutes in.