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TIL Women can be topless in public in most states!

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n6pG TIL The doctor who discovered that hand washing prevented the spread of disease was thrown in a mental institution for his crazy ideas.
Eg8kP TIL a pregnant employee at a Christian school was fired for having premarital sex. The school subsequently offered a job to the man who had gotten her pregnant.
96DQ TIL that during the 70s one suicide jumper from the Golden Gate Bridge had a note that read “I’m going to walk to the bridge. If one person smiles at me on the way, I will not jump.”
5Y1eP TIL the Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu build the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest which is the heaviest building which weighs 4,098,500,000 kg and is also the largest administrative building in the world.
W9Do TIL 95% of commercially grown avocados come from trees descended from a single tree owned by a California mail carrier.