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TIL it is a crime to own more than six dildos in Texas.

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obZr TIL Georg Von Trapp Killed 684 French Sailors during WWI. His family would be later be the basis for “The Sound of Music”.
XEwjk TIL President Harry S. Truman was not given a middle name, only the initial S. The S honors his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young. There is controversy over whether or not the period after the S should be included, although Truman's own letters suggest he regularly used a period.
kyd TIL Bertrand Russell survived a plane crash at the age of 76, in which 19 of the 43 passengers died. Russell survived because he was seated in the smoking section, claiming before the flight that “If I cannot smoke, I shall die.”
xYP1 TIL that Ganymede, the largest moon in our Solar System, is the only known moon that has a magnetic field.
GYowN TIL that the oysters in Chesapeake Bay used to be able to filter the entire volume of water in 3 days. This process now takes nearly a year.