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TIL in 2001 Florida passed a law requiring single mothers to publish their full names and physical descriptions in a newspaper along with a list of the last 5 men they’d had sex with before they could put children up for adoption

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ZOQp TIL that exactly six months after 9/11, the hijackers’ Florida flight school received notification from the Immigration & Naturalization Service that two of them had been approved for student visas.
pQQQ TIL that the last Shuttle flight STS-134 was delayed after an engineer committed suicide by throwing himself off the launch pad.
PoyO TIL that If two pieces of the same type of metal touch each other in space, they will bond and be permanently stuck together
8aJwL TIL John Candy turned down the role for "Honey I shrunk the Kids" bc he felt his good friend, Rick Moranis, was better suited for it.
ANlld TIL WWII ship wreaks are just years away from releasing ~15 million tonnes of oil as their hulls rust away. 400x more than the Exxon Valdez disaster.