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TIL that Florida lets you stay on your parents insurance until you are 30 as long as you are living with them (or a student), unmarried, and have no dependents of your own. Only six other states (IL, NJ, NY, PA, SD & WI) allow something like this.

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wR8E TIL During WW2, the German Army planted the Nazi flag on the highest mountain in Europe, Mt. Elbrus. When Hitler was told, he was so furious about the “frivolous achievement” that he threatened to court martial the General who ordered the feat.
5WbB TIL Nestle’s enormous California (water) bottling plant is on an Indian reservation so they don’t have to adhere to government water restrictions during droughts or report on how much water they’re actually using.
7rl1O TIL that in WWII, an Australian soldier removed his own appendix in the middle of a Philippine jungle in 1944, without any anaesthetic and with only the use of a mirror and an ordinary knife. The operation took 4 and a half hours and he stitched himself up with jungle fibre.
M7AVV TIL airports hire crews of "birdmen" that use methods like horns, sirens, lasers, and pyrotechnics to ward off large groups of birds. They even intentionally remove horizontal branches from nearby trees to discourage large migrations from settling near the runways.
XEPo6 TIL of french writer Gabriel Matzneff. In spite of having described his pedophile activities and sexual tourism in several of his books, he remained sheltered from any criminal prosecution throughout his literary career and benefited from wide support within the French literary and political world.