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TIL: Inmates are not allowed to wear wigs or artificial hairpieces.

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mxe4y TIL of underground cock-fighting arenas in Miami, Fl. Rings included small boxes with glass windows that dramatically lowered the competing cocks into the arena at the start of fights. A cock-fighting referee was even murdered at one, a pouch of ref equipment hanging from his neck.
78mBP TIL that any baptized male is eligible to be Pope. In 236 AD, a spectator had a dove land on his head and he was immediately declared Pope (Pope Fabian)
P1ZkG TIL that skatole, one of the many foul-smelling chemicals responsible for the odor of feces, will instead have a pleasant, flowery smell in very low concentrations is a major contributor to the smell of jasmine and orange blossoms.
yQjBJ TIL that the city of Enterprise, Alabama has a monument dedicated to the boll weevil as thanks for the weevils destroying their cotton crops, which forced them to diversify their agricultural sector and led to greater prosperity.
paGe TIL that humans are more closely related to tuna than tuna are to sharks. The last common ancestor of humans and tuna (and other ray-finned fish) lived 420 million years ago as opposed to 422 million years for tuna and cartilaginous fish like sharks.