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TIL it is illegal to pump your own gas in New Jersey

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XENX TIL that between 1946-1953, Quaker Oats helped sponsor an experiment to feed mentally disabled children radioactive oatmeal
ndPo TIL that the record for the farthest distance cycled in a year is 75,065 miles and was set in 1939.
loJAa TIL that in his famous scene in ‘The Shining’, the crew made a fake door for Jack Nicholson to break through, but had to replace it with a real door as the fake one broke too quickly due to Jack previously being a Fire Marshall.
N6VJ TIL Phil Hartman was in talks with The Simpsons producers to create a live action film starring Troy McClure. You might remember him from such self-help videos as “Smoke Yourself Thin”, and “Get Confident, Stupid.”
OGBaL TIL that the Haber-Bosch process (involving formation of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen) that has led to a population boom over the past century, is also responsible for deaths of millions in the WWII. Additionally, almost 50% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated from this process.