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TIL prostitution is legal in parts of Nevada and that in 2005 brothel owners lobbied unsuccessfully to be taxed in order to increase their legitimacy.

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JYM0V TIL that when safety experts wanted to add more yellow markings to Tesla factories for added safety, they were told "Elon does not like the color yellow"
x6XR7 TIL that King Charles III is not the first British royal to assume that name. Charles Edward Stuart, Jacobite pretender to the throne and grandson of King James II of England, was known as Charles III by his supporters.
a8Y89 TIL that, as the name might suggest, Billboard magazine was originally the trade publication for bill posters and billboard installers.
9JKp TIL Serial killer Albert Fish would embed needles into his groin and abdomen. After his arrest, x-rays revealed that he had at least 29 needles lodged in his pelvic region. He also hit himself with a nail-studded paddle and inserted wool doused with lighter fluid into his anus and lit it.
j691j TIL a 1995 experiment by Oberholzer et al showed DNA replication inside tiny spherical lipid bilayer structures called liposomes (similar to cell membranes)- mimicing early cellular conditions. They showed that DNA replication, through the polymerase chain reaction, can occur within these liposomes.