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TIL that women can walk around topless in New York

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19Md TIL in the UK the gov’t funds a service which you can notify about a person sleeping rough during winter, and they will find that person and arrange a bed for the night.
d8XlZ TIL of the Dunblane massacre in 1996, 16 children and a teacher were shot dead in a UK primary school. The direct response was a ban on all cartridge ammunition handguns.
PYmxw TIL Volcano Surfing or Volcano Boarding, is a sport performed on volcano slopes. Potential dangers include falling off and getting cut by the rough volcanic ash, breathing poisonous gasses, contracting histoplasmosis (otherwise known as 'caver's disease'), or being hit by flying molten lava
nW9AG TIL In the mid 1800's, Williams Clark, a former US Senator who is attributed with starting what became Las Vegas as we know it, once owned a mining company, and sold eggs for $3 per dozen to miners, whose daily salary was $4.
0mrM TIL that Erik The Red deliberately gave Greenland a more appealing name than “Iceland” in order to lure potential settlers. It worked.