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TIL pornography involving characters with the appearance of minors is proctected by the First Amendment, as long as the actors themselves are of legal age.

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ne9M9 TIL General anesthesia is not simply a deep sleep. EEG (electroencephalography) readings, show that even the deepest sleep is not as deep as the lightest general anesthesia. General anesthesia EEG patterns are most similar to a comatose brain. General anesthesia is essentially a “reversible coma.”
18QO TIL that the Colorado Dept. of Transportation replaced mile marker 420 east of Denver with a marker that reads 419.99 to prevent theft.
ZpayR TIL: the term plastic explosive has nothing to do with modern plastic, it denotes explosives that can be shaped by hand, stemming from the original meaning of the word plastic, meaning something malliable/formable.
8emKZ TIL Although the Prince became his most famous work, Machiavelli as a writer identiefied more with his comedies, which he wrote to cope with depression and boredom after his career forcibly ended. In a bit of self deprecation, he signed a letter as "N.Machiavelli-historian, comedian and tragic"
KOEvB TIL there was a blizzard in Iran in 1972 so deadly that some villages had no survivors. Snow got as high as 26 feet.