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TIL that Texas is the only state to have licensed dealers legally allowed to sell the Schedule 1 substance, Peyote. However they are only allowed to sell to people with a Certificate of Indian Blood.

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ne5eP TIL of "Hysterical Literature" a series of videos of women reading a favorite passage while being stimulated with a vibrator.
Bro7r TIL for every year a woman breastfed it lowers her risk of breast cancer by 4.3%
R7Qj7 TIL; Palm Trees Withstand Hurricanes because, unlike traditional trees, are not made of wood. "Instead, you'll find a jumble of spongy tissue, scattered instead of arranged" inside a palm.
b6om9 TIL that the earliest known reference to French toast dates back to first century CE in a Latin collection of recipes.
j8Xp TIL that the longest prison sentence ever requested was 384,912 years of jail, against a 22 years old postman accused of failing to deliver 42,768 letters