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TIL it is illegal in parts of Oregon and New Jersey to pump your own gas

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Pprg TIL until Dec 2013, McDonald’s employee help site advised workers to take food stamps, break food into smaller pieces to feel fuller, seek refunds for unopened presents, sell possessions online, and to “quit complaining” as “stress hormone levels rise by 15 percent after ten minutes of complaining.”
D1ogY TIL of a bacterium that does photosynthesis without sunlight. Instead it uses thermal "black-body" radiation. It was discovered in 2005 on a deep-sea hydrothermal vent, at a depth of 2400 m, in complete darkness.
PYW7e TIL that the earliest record of the name Jessica is from Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice.
x6QMB TIL about The Stinking Rose, a restaurant in San Francisco whose claim to fame is that almost everything they serve incorporates large amounts of garlic. Menu items include 40 clove garlic chicken, garlic pizza, garlic ice cream, and a variety of garlic-infused cocktails
M701m TIL of Cassiopea xamachana. A species of upside-down jellyfish capable of spawning venom filled, homing torpedoes that swims independently from the animal and allows it to kill/stun prey from a distance.