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TIL Littering can result in imprisonment of up to six years in Tennessee

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XEbJD TIL that there is a Fictious Athlete Hall of Fame, and Rocky Balboa is the inaugural member.
9YoYQ TIL Gulliver's Travels by Swift was largely changed by others in later editions from the original biting satire to remove a lot of the satirical tone and make it more passable for the general public's consumption. It was basically changed from political satire to a children's book.
jeOa TIL that there is such a thing as a ‘Trauma Handshake’ a procedure in which two fingers are inserted into the rectum in order to make sure that your brain still has control over your anal sphincter.
0EgM TIL: Martin Luther King Jr. said, “People who have a stake in their society, protect their society, but when when they don’t have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.”
QNKg9 TIL there's no town Sweet Home, Alabama, but there is a Sweet Home, Oregon