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TIL that anyone over the age 18 can perform a marriage ceremony in the state of Alaska.

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5YlVD TIL Iran currently is the only country in the world that allows the sale of one's kidney for compensation (typically a payment); consequently, the country does not have either a waiting list or a shortage of available organs.
k4A4 TIL Charles Wagner - inventor of the electric tattoo machine - was arrested in in 1943 and released with a small fine after arguing he was doing “essential war work,” tattooing clothes on naked women, thus allowing tattooed men to join the Navy.
kJWgW TIL: crematoriums need to “ process “ fat people slower otherwise the fat turns to oil, which could leak and ignite the building.
Y7ykP TIL that 20 of the 50 oldest living people are Japanese
XwKj TIL Steven Spielberg was thanked more often than God in Oscar acceptance speeches.