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TIL Atheists cannot hold office or testify as a witness in Arkansas

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4XbxJ TIL the first non-Neapolitan to win the World Pizza Cup in Naples had to escorted off the stage by police for fear of being attacked by the crowd.
R7E6l TIL During the "cash for clunkers" program of 2009, the government provided CARFAX vehicle identification numbers (VIN) of the 700,000 clunkers that consumers turned in at dealerships. By law, these cars must have their engines taken out and destroyed, and the rest of the metal scrapped.
69lvQ TIL that Robinson, the designer of Mount Rushmore, initially wanted to sculpt the likenesses of Western heroes like Oglala Lakota leader of Red Cloud, the explorers Lewis and Clark, and Buffalo Bill Cody into stones pinnacles next to the current location of the monument
W7ayd TIL the creators of the AriZona Beverage Company are from New York and at the time had never been to the state of Arizona or even west of the Mississippi River
wQNW TIL that American volunteers fighting in other nations armed forces in WW2 lost their citizenship and changed their nationality to Canadian. Congress eventually passed a blanked pardon in 1944.