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

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MEym TIL the homeless person, Kenni Nickel, from the viral video “How Does A Homeless Man Spend $100?” is dead. The youtuber behind the video, “Josh Paler Lin”, raised close to $150k on “indiegogo.com”, stating it was for Nickel, before he died. According to Nickel’s family he never received the money.
YpVk7 TIL that Queen Victoria was believed to ingest cocaine laced gum with a young Winston Churchill, and also regularly acquired Opium.
ge7W TIL that professional wrestlers signed with WWE are not classified as employees, therefore denied some benefits they would be entitled to as employees.
neGeG TIL A soviet defector predicted the current state of America 40 years ago (cultural decline, marxism, socialism) It was all carefully planned. "Our goal was to demoralize people so completely that they would deny fact, of course these people would be purged once the socialist goal was accomplished"
AN5kw TIL that Skatole, the main odorant responsible for the smell of human feces, is used in low concentrations as a perfume. It apparently smells like orange jasmine and ripe fruits.