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TIL According to the Tennessee Constitution, it's illegal to hold public office if you've fought a duel.

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OK1L TIL the world’s longest-running laboratory experiment “demonstrates the fluidity and high viscosity of pitch, a derivative of tar once used for waterproofing boats.” In 1930 pitch was left in a glass funnel to drip out and has only dropped 9 times: about once every 10 years.
rNnNe TIL Tony wasn't talking about the people, Puerto Rico actually does have a really bad garbage problem
9Yjdm TIL not a single survivor of the original 115 settlers of Roanoke Island were ever found in 1590. There was no trace of violence, struggle or even a grave, only the word 'CRO' carved in one tree and 'CROATAN' carved in another. It is one of the oldest unsolved mysteries in American history.
woK47 TIL Every mosquito species lands different on a surface and only the malaria carrying kind lands in a 45 degree angle. The other species land parallel to the surface
a5oL TIL that the oldest yo mama joke is on a 3500 year old Babylonian tablet