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TIL Dexter Holland of The Offspring published scientific findings in PLoS One in 2013

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69Go7 TIL that both the Department of Justice and the Library of Congress have tried to count the total number of Federal criminal laws in the United States. They were both unable to arrive at a definitive number.
1Nr4 TIL Ikea used East German political prisoners as slave labor
Jy5j TIL the whiptail lizard is an all female species, the males have gone completely extinct. They’re not hermaphroditic, the females actually lay, and hatch from unfertilized eggs
lovKV TIL the Vienna Philharmonic did not accept women into the orchestra until 1997 when they granted full member status to a harpist who had been playing with the orchestra for 27 years
AD1Yw TIL of involuntary parks, areas rendered unsuitable for human habitance (by acts of mankind) that have since returned to its original, wild state as a result, like the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone for example.