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TIL it is illegal to put coins in your ear in Hawaii because it’s a a sign of selling illegal drugs.

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oBL88 TIL that in many American hospitals, you’ll find representatives from No One Should Die Alone (NOSDA), a nonprofit volunteer organization formed in 2002 by a nurse named Sandra Clark. Their founding principle is that no one is born alone, and no one should die alone, either.
eZPk TIL that at the height of Shirley Temple’s popularity there was a rumor that she was not a child, but a 30-year-old dwarf. The rumor was so prevalent that the Vatican dispatched Father Silvio Massante to investigate whether or not she was actually a child.
neeWY TIL The first song featured on the very first Kidz Bop album was All Star by Smashmouth
Yr7x TIL That in 2015 93 year-old Oskar Groning was found guilty of 300,000 counts of accessory to murder for his involvement in Auschwitz and sentenced to 4 years of prison.
Yk6B TIL Alabama still has a segregation law in their constitution and voted not to repeal it as recently as November 2012.