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TIL Women can be topless in public in most states!

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LkDav TIL Granny Smith Apples originated by accident, when a lady dumped a crate of old rotten French crab apples in her garden and then later found an apple sapling growing there. The tree grew to produce green tart apples that had never grown before.
yVLav TIL that the movie Dodgeball inserted a joke of a fictional sports channel called "ESPN 8: The Ocho" which aired obscure sports. In 2017, ESPN launched a real "ESPN 8: the Ocho" as a program block that usually airs in August every year.
LQxav TIL Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists. Today it is used to describe those who uphold the legacies of leaders such as Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong.
GRN1 TIL a man cut off his hand after he decided that it made him sin and was also possessed by the devil. In the hospital, he demanded it not be reattached. Later he returns and sues the hospital for 3 million dollars for not reattaching his arm.
6E1O8 TIL Andrew Carnegie by the time of his death in 1919 had already given away roughly 90% of his wealth. He is one of the richest Americans in history and the total money donated by him would equate to ~$65,000,000,000 in today's currency.