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TIL Tattooing Was Illegal In NYC From 1961 - 1997

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j6jrj TIL that when elephants die of old age it's because they have lost their last set of molars, can't eat and die of starvation.
KYYMG TIL that a 1982 Harvard study confirmed that Tibetan monks can raise their body temperature with their minds. Practitioners of "g-tummo" yoga demonstrated the ability to raise the temperature of different parts of their bodies through meditation alone.
9YY0D Highest amounts of lightning flashes occur in the far eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and Lake Maracaibo in northwestern Venezuela.
oo7A TIL that the NFL moved the 1993 Super Bowl from Arizona because they refuse to make Martin Luther King day an official state holiday
wo6xo TIL that the power density in the Solar core is about 276.5watts/m3, less than the power density produced by the metabolism of an adult human.