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TIL Oral sex was illegal in Canada… Until 1969

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R7AwQ TIL Chinese street vendors will often use a cheap 'cooking oil' called gutter oil. While it can be just recycled from normal sources, a major source is from fatbergs in sewers.
1aW88 TIL Martin Van Buren was both the first president born a U.S. citizen, and the first (and last) president who spoke English as a second language. His first language was Dutch.
a9DA TIL that Zooey Deschanel is in an old The Offspring video
R7J99 TIL The writer of "That 70's Show" theme song gets $70 each time the show airs, and refers to it as "That $70 Show" .
Medx8 TIL that on 10 June 1898, mathematician Alice Lee barged into a meeting of the all-male Anatomical Society, measured 35 skulls and found that some of the most well-regarded anatomists had the smallest skulls. These anatomists believed that skull size determined intelligence.