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TIL that it is illegal to buy or sell sex toys in Alabama, and has been since 1998.

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loDrA TIL there are portions of the oceans that are essentially deserts if you only look at the amount of rainfall they receive.
ZpZXG Today I learned that for about ten years, ending in 1957, British television schedules had a gap from 6pm-7pm called the 'Toddlers' Truce' where for an hour there was no programming so that parents could put the kiddies to bed.
0wKPj TIL that Yuri Kondratyuk, Soviet pioneer of astronautics, while working in Siberia, built an enormous wooden grain elevator with a capacity of 13 000 tons without using any nails. Due to using such an unusual construction, he was arrested in suspicion of sabotage. The elevator stood till the 90s.
lQw1 TIL that Michael Jordan once refused to endorse a Democrat against a Republican because “Republicans buy sneakers too.”
vO5K TIL that on this 150th anniversary week of the Emancipation Proclamation you can listen to the actual voices of emancipated slaves, their first-hand stories recorded in 1930.