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

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LQ18d TIL: A man kept his arm up for 49 years to prove his faith in his god, Shiva. He hasn't lowered it since the 1970s.
6ErXJ TIL 1749 out of 1750 species of cacti are native to only The Americas
9w7jX TIL that Toronto, with a tree canopy rivaling the world’s largest cities, has over 22,000 fruit-bearing street trees, including cherries, apples, pears, plum, and the most common hackberry! There’s even a map showing when and where these trees ripen each month.
ADQbd TIL Aretha Franklin was the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
DQw6e TIL James Longstreet’s (Confederate general and US Minister to the Ottoman Empire) second wife, Helen Dortch Longstreet, died in 1962 at the age of 99. They got married in 1897, he was 74 and she was 34. She was widowed in 1904, childless.