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TIL Washington DC isn't in a state
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TIL in 1977, Ben Cohen was a struggling potter & Jerry Greenfield was getting rejected by medical schools. The pair decided to open a bagel shop, but the cost of bagel machines was too high. As a result, they enrolled in a $5 ice cream making course instead. A year later, they created Ben & Jerry's
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TIL Because rallies often take place on public roads (and use public roads to get to and from stages) Wolrd Rally Championship cars are registered, street legal vehicles complete with licence plates.
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TIL that one of the real reasons Roman Catholic priests were banned from marriage was to prevent them having 'legitimate' heirs who could inherit property from them. With no legitimate heirs to claim anything from estates, it would all go to the church.
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TIL that after Gawker ran a story exposing billionaire Peter Thiel’s homosexuality, he funded dozens of lawsuits against the media company bankrupting it
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TIL that a loving touch causes female cockroaches to make babies faster