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TIL Portland, OR has the most strip clubs per capita, 8.86 clubs per 100,000 people. This is because the Oregon constitution says: No law shall be passed restraining the free expression of opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write or print freely on any subject whatever.

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nWk1r TIL that in response to "Brown vs Board of Education", the State of Georgia passed legislation to close de-segregated public schools, to abolish attendance requirements for desegregated schools, and to fund the establishment of white-only 'private schools' in their place.
9wwLQ TIL in the movie Misery, when Kathy Bates 'hobbles' James Caan with a sledge hammer, the scene was deliberately downgraded. She was supposed to chop off his foot with an axe, then cauterize the wound with a propane torch.
VMenm TIL in 1994, the then 17-year-old David Hahn made a nuclear reactor from batteries, old clocks, lanterns, uranium from Czechoslovakia and duct tape in a shed next to his mother’s house.
epEa6 TIL of a cant language utilized by Mormon missionaries in Japan known as Senkyoshigo. It synthesizes English function words with a primarily Japanese lexicon with English pronunciations of words. Some words include cook-chan, kanji jock, trunky, Eigo bandit, fud, bucho, golden kazuko and greenbean.
N7DnQ TIL that there is another type of diamond called Lonsdaleite, which are naturally produced at meteorite impact sites. They are about 58 percent harder than regular diamonds, and are much rarer and more valuable.