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TIL Collecting rainwatter is illegal in many US states

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yQg9V TIL Pharma Bro Martin Skrelli's $2mil Wu Tang album was seized by US Federal Courts following his fraud conviction
O4je TIL The most abundant mineral is 51% of the Earth but had no official name until 2014 because there was no way to get a natural sample from 400 miles beneath the surface
1Ywr TIL the head of Columbia Studios had Sammy Davis Jr. kidnapped by the Mafia to keep him from marrying a white woman.
6O0l TIL of hockey player Clint Malarchuck who, in 1989 nearly died after his carotid artery and jugular vein were both sliced open in a freak hockey accident. Then 19 years later in 2008, Malarchuck attempted suicide by shooting himself with a rifle. He survived and now gives speeches about OCD.
xVBOk TIL In 1828, 40-year-old artist Sarah Goodridge painted a miniature portrait of her own breasts imbued with a "paleness and buoyancy" and gave it to a U.S. Senator she may have wanted to marry. His family kept it for over 50 years and it now hangs at the Met Museum.