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TIL Google will fight to keep sites like The Pirate Bay available in the USA.

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v1LDj TIL that the US is in eternal battle with a flesh eating fly called the Screw Worm. Basically a maggot that burrow into live flesh, head first. There's a worm screw border guard at Panama, having mostly irradicating them in North America. Last US case in 2016. Yes, they will lay their eggs in you.
vPMNL TIL Atlantis-believer Graham Hancock gave a TEDx talk in 2013 where he openly claimed to have been “pretty much permanently stoned” for 24 years. He credits his consumption of ayahuasca with helping him get off cannabis.
XNjP TIL if you live in California and your neighbor installs solar panels (like the new Tesla roof), state law can require you to cut down the trees on your property that are blocking the sun.
ReB7 TIL we refer to our lower body garments as “pairs of pants” because they originally came as two articles of clothing instead of a single piece.
697dX TIL That Mellow Yellow the Song by Donovan was actually written about a yellow dildo he saw in an ad