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TIL That its illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey and Oregon.

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4Ywa TIL there are blue bandaids with metal in them so they can be detected by metal detectors in food processing factories.
1aEnr TIL Lego started by copying their product and designs from Hilary Fisher Page's Kiddicraft Blocks, eventually driving him to suicide after his company was ruined
ZpZdR TIL that defunct airline Pan Am accepted reservation requests from 93,000 people for commercial spaceflights to the moon, which were expected to start departing in the year 2000.
PYn1n TIL that a NYPD officer was killed by Nation of Islam members in a mosque while responding to a fake call for help and the investigation was practically shut down following political pressure from Louis Farrakhan and others.
VMYlm TIL- Rapper T.I. not once, but twice has successfully intervened and talked someone down while they were mid suicide attempt.