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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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d89KZ TIL of The Great Disappointment: a reaction to the failure of a preacher's proclamation that Jesus would return to Earth on October 22, 1844. When nothing happened, many groups reacted with violence, including a group in Toronto being tarred and feathered.
VMO6k TIL Ronald Reagan's campaign slogan was Let's make America great again"
PYxpe TIL that Rabies causes hydrophobia because the virus multiplies and assimilates in the salivary glands of the infected animal for the purpose of further transmission through biting. Its transmission abilities would decrease if the infected individual could swallow saliva and water.
RMd1 TIl, Ray Kurzweil has predicted that computer brain implants will be available by year 2029. Since 1990, 89 of his 108 predictions have come true.
697o8 TIL, That Rumi, the famous love and mysticism poet, was actually a Muslim scholar, and it was only after meeting. befriending and sudden disappearance of a man named Shams, that caused such sorrow for him that he wrote more than 3000 sonnets and 40000 verses tributing to him.