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TIL that 12 states allow child support payments via credit card, yielding yet another pathway to rack up frequent flyer miles

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nWo87 TIL Apple does not let the bad guys in movies use iPhones on screen
KOJeJ TIL In 2008, Mike Schultz, a pro snowmobile racer, had his left leg amputated above the knee. Seven months later, he was zooming around on a dirt bike wearing a prosthetic leg that he designed and built himself. X Games 8x gold medalist motocross snowcross and Gold Silver paralympic Snowboarding.
jAGN TIL New Hamphire prison inmates that have to make license plates, stamp their state motto “Live Free or Die” …hour after hour, day after day,
5Yd4Q TIL the famous inventor Nikola Tesla became interested in electricity after his cat gave him an electric shock
E1OLW TIL a legal loophole in the UK allows alcohol to be sold without a license on a train in motion. An unlicensed distillery exploited this by setting up in a disused railway building, obtaining a steam train, and selling gin to customers while they road it back and forth from the distillery.