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TIL: Texas bankruptcy laws allows you to keep 2 guns.

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OA84 TIL of the Hospital Broadcasting Association, which takes song requests from hospital patients. Their list of banned songs include Stairway To Heaven, The Final Countdown and I Want To Live.
oRajr TIL Why Hákarl(shark) is fermented up to seven months before being eaten as a delicacy in Iceland is because it has high amounts of Urea and trimethylamine oxide.
rNakd TIL that the Titanic movie, which has well cemented itself in modern culture, has made less money (nominally) than Avatar 2, a movie I’ve never heard discussed in any conversation even though release 6 months ago.
XljR TIL of Lauri Törni, a Finnish soldier that after fighting in the winter war against the USSR, he joined the SS and kept fighting until the end WW2. After WW2, he migrated to the US and joined the US Army, and died in combat in Vietnam in 1965 by which time he had earned high ranking U.S. awards.
wMQW TIL The poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas” is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today, and has had a massive impact on the history of Christmas gift giving