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TIL flamethrowers are totally legal in 48 states, except for Maryland where it’s against fire code and California where you just need a license

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eDoJ TIL it would take Vietnam an estimated 300 years and 10 Billion Dollars to clear its territory of unexploded bombs, shells and mines.
WLlY TIL Julian Lennon had to buy back postcards sent to him by his father because Yoko was auctioning them off after his death
j8NM TIL there was a Japanese man who survived 24 days of cold weather by inadvertently falling into a state of hibernation. When he was found, his temperature had dropped to 71°F.
KOpXG TIL a portrait by Gustav Klimt commissioned by the sitter's husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, was stolen by the Nazis in 1941. In the 90s, his niece launched a successful legal campaign to have the painting returned to the family. She then sold it for $135 million, at the time a record for a painting.
a86V0 TIL of the Accademia Vivarium Novum, a college in Rome and the only one in the world where ancient Latin and Greek are spoken exclusively and regularly both in and out of the classroom