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TIL Collecting rainwatter is illegal in many US states

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mx4gv TIL that our brains cannot comprehend large numbers like the difference between a million a billion. 1 million seconds is 11.574 days but 1 billion seconds is 31.69 years.
1ag7d TIL only one person in recorded history has been struck by a meteorite.
eRYL TIL The first postage stamp to depict a nude woman was printed in Spain in 1930, in commemoration of Goya’s painting ‘La maja desnuda’ (the nude maja). In the same year, the United States government barred and returned any mail bearing the stamps.
dD0Wr TIL: Spider from School Of Rock (Lucas Babin) is now District Attorney of Tyler County, Texas
oB9kW TIL Madam C. J. Walker was the first black businesswoman to find wild success aiming her company at creating hair care products and instruction for black women with her Anti-Kink Tonic. She was worth $8.7m in today's dollars when she died, making her the wealthiest black woman in the US at the time.