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TIL Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonald’s, Burger King, or Walmart

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yQD8p TIL Making porn is technically illegal in Australia. Except in the ACT (the Australian equivalent of Washington, D.C.)
Br0dk TIL that the reason the International Space Station doesn't fall back to earth it's because once a month it fires its thrusters to regain the lost altitude.
VMoWp TIL film critic Gene Siskel went to great lengths to show his contempt for the original Friday the 13th movie. He called the film’s director a “despicable creature,” published the address of Paramount’s chairman so people would write hate mail, and spoiled the film’s ending for his readers.
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