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TIL in Washington state, it’s illegal for anyone with any contagious disease to willfully expose themselves to the public.

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OP6a TIL that there is at least one documented case of a wolverine (typical weight 20 - 55 lb) successfully killing a polar bear (typical weight 770 - 1,500 lb).
VMR0Q TIL that slugs were used during World War 1 as a method to detect mustard gas well before humans could. The slugs would visibly indicate their discomfort giving soldiers in the trenches time to put on their gas masks.
OBVL TIL that orange juice tastes bad after brushing because toothpaste blocks your sweet taste receptors due to a foaming agent that changes the permeability of your tongue cells.
XEjZQ TIL when Tony Soprano says "Gabagool" he's really meaning "Capicola" but because of the Italian dialect from southern Italy mixing with Jersey/New York it turned into "Gabagool".
e0mpD TIL that a high school in Morgan Freeman's hometown of Charleston, Mississippi held its first racially integrated prom in 2008, 54 years after the Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court ruling. Freeman offered to pay for the event if the school board agreed to desegregate.