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TIL: In the town of Virgin Utah, gun ownership is mandatory for every homeowner.

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kOLEW TIL that Nokia has existed since 1865. They started as a papermill and even produced toilet at one stage. The original toilet paper is still on display in a museum in Finland.
M71nK TIL Searing meat can create a tasty crust, but it does not seal or lock in the meat's juices.
WalX TIL that Slovakia and Slovenia are mistakenly thought to be each other so often they meet once a month to exchange wrongly adressed mail
BJBb TIL Bertrand Russel said “in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt”. This is actually a bias called the Dunning–Kruger effect which says unskilled individuals feel an illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their analysis to be much better than it is.
m1MNp TIL In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) literally means "fertilization in glass" (i.e., in a test tube!)