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TIL that congregating in public while wearing a mask is illegal in the state of New York.

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vPPRR TIL that Tony Iommi guitarist for Black Sabbath used melted down plastic liquid soap bottles to create prosthetic fingertips after two of them got chopped off while he was working in a factory.
Y7m6B TIL until their deaths, two men claimed they wrote "Jingle Bell Rock: Bobby Helms, the singer, and Hank Garland, the guitarist. Both said they rewrote the original (bad) song by Joe Beal and Jim Boothe and turned it into a hit. But only Beal and Boothe got writing credits and royalties for it.
wgE6 TIL In 2011, NASA’s Terra satellite spotted a 150km-wide whirlpool in the S. Atlantic. It stood out because it was glowing.
R7Ab6 TIL actor Daniel von Bargen, who was known for his roles as Mr. Kruger on Seinfeld, Commandant Edwin Spangler on Malcolm in the Middle, and Chief Grady in Super Troopers shot himself in the temple in 2012 in an apparent suicide attempt
oZlY TIL that Donald Rumsfeld is both the youngest and the oldest person to ever serve as Secretary of Defense.