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TIL Drunk surfing is illegal in Iowa.

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YppXP TIL Harvard's first black faculty member was a dentist. Dr. George Franklin Grant joined the Dept of mechanical dentistry in 1871. Also an inventor, he patented the wooden golf tee. Previously, golfers carried around buckets of sand, placing their balls on little piles as they went.
VepQ TIL the Kemper County energy facility - an experimental ‘clean coal’ power plant has been in construction since 2010, scheduled to be online in 2014 and is still uncompleted, after being 295% over original budget.
OK0L TIL in India due to law change, rapists can be hanged to death for repeat offense.
KONva TIL the average soccer player runs 7 miles per game. Midfielders average 9.5 miles and referees average more miles than players.
EgeLw TIL Stupidity is in essence not an intellectual defect but a moral one