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TIL under Arizona's "Stupid Motorist Law," if you become stranded after driving through barricades to enter a flooded road, you will be charged for your emergency rescue.

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mANy TIL that California’s official state animal is extinct.
jNo4M TIL that during the Great Depression of the 1930s, women turned their flour sacks into into dresses, underwear, towels, curtains, quilts, and other household necessities. So flour companies started packing their flour in bags with pretty patterns.
9PdD TIL after the success of The Hobbit, Tolkien wanted to publish a book on the history of Middle Earth, The Silmarillion, it was through a misunderstanding that the publisher rejected the draft without reading it, leading Tolkien to write another story about hobbits, which began The Lord of the Rings.
x8bD TIL Noah Webster, the founder of Merriam-Webster, learned 26 languages in order to evaluate the etymology of words
wLeL7 TIL That the theory of plate tectonics was not widely accepted by the geoscientific community until the 50s or 60s.