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TIL in New York the penalty for jumping off a building is Death

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BAZx TIL Nicolas Cage had magic mushrooms with his cat, Lewis. Seeing Lewis eating the shrooms, Cage responded, “What the heck, I better do it with him.” Cage recalls laying in bed for hours and staring at Lewis, as Lewis stared back. Cage concluded, “and I had no doubt that he was my brother.”
Ve9k TIL Wal-Mart has a crime problem; cost cutting and employee reductions drove a rise in crime that led one community to deem the retailer a public nuisance and another to task ‘Officer Walmart’ to the retailer for up to 10 hours a day. Target doesn’t have these issues; they invest in more security.
mxjBx TIL of Typhoid Mary. Mary was a cook in New York City in the early 1900s.An asymptomatic carrier of typhoid, she infected 20 people, causing one death. After years of isolation, she went back to cooking, causing another major outbreak and two more deaths. She spent the rest of her life in isolation.
mVyO TIL that in the ancient Persian Empire, men used to debate ideas twice, once sober and once drunk, because the idea had to sound good in both states in order to be considered a good idea
pY778 TIL There is an ISO standard for brewing a cup of tea. Ireland objected to it