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TIL Idaho is the only state that expressly bans cannibalism.

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MeJYB TIL of Vesta Stoudt. During World War 2, she came up with the idea for duct tape at her factory job. After her supervisors rejected the idea, she wrote president Roosevelt, he liked the idea and gave the letter to the War Production Board
4XW4a TIL there was a war between Ohio and Michigan over Toledo's land which sparked the Ohio-Michigan sports rivalry.
8eXL4 TIL the original English voice actor to Daisy in the Mario series, Kate Fleming, passed away in a flash flood. Her partner, Charlene Strong, made a film For My Wife... in dedication to same-sex marriage equality and the challenges faced due to legal restrictions in processing Kate's passing.
v1LBB TIL of Eugene Bostwick, a retired Texas farmer who kept taking in dogs that people abandoned at the dead-end street near his horse barn; he would feed the dogs & take them to the vet to get spayed & neutered. He built a "dog train" in order to take all his dogs out at the same time with his tractor.
7mlp TIL that a group of inmates from a maximum security prison in New York beat the Harvard debate team in a debate competition