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TIL Mexico has only one gun store.

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8eYrb TIL of the Poison Book Project, an effort to identify and catalogue books that were printed in the 19th century using arsenic compounds and “Paris green,” and are poisonous to researchers and librarians
PYd5O TIL that it is safe to eat raw eggs in Japan due to their strict control of processes involved in egg production.
j6krp TIL that Hey Arnold originally began as a short film called Arnold Escapes from Church, which was made in 1994. It was a part of a series of Nickelodeon animated shorts.
Wk9oA TIL it is 100% legal be to buried at sea in the USA. You basically wrap the body in a sheet with some weights, at least 3 miles from shore and throw it off the boat. The Navy even has a program to assist veterans of the armed services.
9wB9X TIL a Troponin Protein variant only occurs in heart muscle cells and only enters your blood due to heart muscle damage. That makes Troponin-I invaluable in diagnosing heart attacks and other heart-related problems.