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TIL it’s illegal in the US for a convicted felon to own or wear a bulletproof vest

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nepDb TIL That due to some missing paperwork, Ohio wasn't legally a state until 1953. 150 years after the Ohio constitution was presented to congress.
P1XJO TIL the first pitching machine, designed by mathematician Charles Hinton at Princeton University, used gunpowder to launch baseballs. It was capable of throwing variable speeds and even curve balls but resulted in multiple injuries.
MeE6W TIL when UCSD becomes a D1 school in the NCAA, students will have to pay an additional $480 per year fee to the university in order to pay for the additional expenses from college sports
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lvxB TIL a Buddhist monk left a note with instructions on how his body should be handled after death, once his body was exhumed in 2002 after 80 years it was in perfect condition.