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TIL It is illegal to tickle a female in Virginia

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6EnQ8 TIL that a Japanese company wanted to build an office building on a plot of land it owned, while another company had permits to build a highway through the same plot. The companies compromised by building a 16-story office building and putting the highway on floors 5-7.
N7Pke TIL: in 2017, a frat party in a Maryland house tested positive on a breathalyzer because there was so much alcohol in the air.
yQorM TIL that inside the video game EVE Online, there is a mini-game where players can help discover real life exoplanets using data from the CoRoT telescope. It has discovered 37 so far.
ygnp TIL that Roosevelt is on the dime because he helped create March of Dimes, the organization that was originally a campaign to fund polio research.
negGB TIL that for every child born or adopted in Wales, the Welsh government will plant a native Welsh broadleaf tree. The scheme is called Plant! – the Welsh word for children.