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TIL it is illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey

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KOap9 TIL that the widowed wife of Lee Harvey Oswald (the man who shot JFK), Marina Oswald Porter, is still alive and living in Texas. She still believes that he was innocent of the assassination.
YpM0P TIL the boycott was named after Charles Boycott, a man so hated that people wanted nothing to do with him
67a8 TIL Egyptian female protesters underwent virginity checks.
QJvb6 TIL before the 1400s, people in Korea primarily wrote using Classical Chinese alongside phonetic writing systems based on Chinese script. Due to the difficulty in learning Chinese characters, King Sejong created the Korean alphabet, Hangul to promote literacy among the common people.
0dmgR TIL In China, for many village women, marriage is the primary means of changing their lives. Most of them marry up - moving from the mountain areas to the plains, from the villages to towns and cities, and from the poorer classes to the richer.