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TIL the coins collected from fountains barely pays for the cost of collecting the coins from fountains.

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LQWWP TIL The Mississippi University for Women has a Men’s Basketball team.
Xayk TIL Due to a law in USA, importing toys resembling humans are taxed higher than those that don’t. Marvel successfully argued in court that because their X-men action figures are mutants they should be exempt from such higher tax.
wLVM1 TIL Bill Bixby, who played the original Incredible Hulk's David Banner, had a 7-year old son who died in 1981 of a rare infection. His wife committed suicide as a result of their loss. Bill's next marriage ended in divorce at the same time he was diagnosed with cancer. Bill died in 1993 at age 59.
yQ4dV TIL Einstein's last paper on quantum physics before departing from the field argued that it's an "incomplete" solution to a fundamental problem, with him writing that God "does not play dice." Ironically, the paper was highly influential and paved the way for decades of progress in quantum physics.
BR8K TIL that Haribo Sugarless Gummy Bears contain a chemical, Lycasin, that causes people consuming them to have “gastric symptoms” (i.e., you shit your brains out after eating them)