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Today I Learned farting in Florida on a Thusday, after 6PM and before 9PM, is illegal and a minor offence.

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oRNwR TIL that if we took all the surface water on earth and made it into a sphere, its diameter would only be 860mi or the distance between Salt Lake City Utah and Topeka Kansas.
6bom TIL of Roy Benavidez, a soldier from Vietnam who saved a trapped patrol although getting shot multiple times. Later he was thought dead, and when the doctor was zipping the body bag, Roy managed to spit on his face. Roy had 37 separate bullet, bayonet and shrapnel wounds.
W74Pd TIL that in 1885, artists began to develop 'bizarre' Christmas cards picturing things such as clowns, deceased birds, Krampus kidnapping children, half men/half vegetables, and other disturbing imagery to send to loved ones for the holidays
0dNlM TILthat Psathyrella aquatica is the only recorded aquatic species of fungus in current science. The Mushroom can be found in the rivers near Crater Lake in Oregon
OoDV4 TIL Edgar Allen Poe married his 13 year old cousin at 27. His obsession with her and her early death, led to him becoming an alcoholic ,a laudanum addict, and the creation of his best known poems "Annabell Lee", "The Raven", and "Ligeia"