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TIL Interracial Marriage was not fully legalized in the USA until a 1967 Supreme Court Case

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M7kQK TIL virtually all the major obstacles on K2's standard route had been overcome as early as 1939, and it might have been climbed then had storms and miscommunication not caused disaster instead.
mxZny TIL of Chief Buffalo Hump. His Nʉmʉ tekwapu (Comanche) name, properly transliterated, was Po-cha-na-quar-hip which meant "erection that won't go down".
X9VR TIL - Polygraph Tests being able to determine if you’re lying or not is an absolute MYTH.
gel7 TIL that farmers allow the “Tree Goats of Morocco” to climb Argan trees to eat the fruit because their poop (consisting of digested clumps of seeds) is then pressed to create the sought-after Argan oil. Argan oil is commonly found in the popular Ogx Shampoo bottle… effectively making it Shampoop.
D1lOr TIL a hot dog stand just outside of The Central Park Zoo in New York has an annual license fee of $289,500 to operate.