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TIL that Loving Day in June celebrates the day that Interracial Marriage became legal in the US.

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6E0Dw TIL that in the years following the 2014 UK legislation change to say police won’t pursue shoplifters if less than £200 worth was stolen, and won’t investigate at all if less than £50 was stolen, shoplifting doubled.
KYB0E TIL that there is a chemical that is so unstable, it explodes on contact with sharp edges
kOjVm TIL that the energy used to produce a single metal straw is equivalent to 90 plastic straws and the carbon emitted is equivalent to about 150. You'd have to use your metal straw 150 times to break even before it actually becomes beneficial to the environment.
OGeZ1 TIL That Denzel Washington chose to cut an interracial kiss from his 1995 movie "Virtuosity" because he thought it would hurt the movie's box office.
7Dnr TIL that 11 years ago a starquake was detected on a star, which, if located within 10 light years of Earth, would have triggered a mass extinction.