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TIL New Jersey is the only state in America where it’s illegal for drivers to pump their own gas. A Monmouth University poll in 2022 also showed that 60% of New Jersey residents oppose a policy that would allow stations to go fully self-service.

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wLlYM TIL Brian Wells was murdered in PA in 2003 using a collar bomb in a plot involving a bank robbery, a homemade explosive collar, and a scavenger hunt to disarm it. He was surrounded by police and it was shown live on TV as "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI".
l9Ar TIL That the Dominican Republic, led by dictator Rafael Trujillo, offered to accept between 50,000 and 100,000 Jewish refugees in 1938. Only 645 made it and upon arrival, every new Jewish settler was given 80 acres of land, 10 cows, a mule and a horse.
8abJb TIL Following the buyout of K.F.C in 1971, Colonel Sanders disliked their food so much that he developed plans to franchise “The Colonel’s Lady’s Dinner House” restaurant (which he opened with his wife in Kentucky, in 1968) as a competitor. Followed by Sanders suing the new owners for $122 million.
l7Ar TIL- Domino’s Pizza and Little Caesars Pizza, two of the nation’s biggest pizza chains, were founded 18 miles apart and still maintain their corporate capitals less than 50 miles apart
0dG8R TIL: The earliest citations of 'motherfucker' came from the Texas Court of Appeals’ account of the 1889 trial of Levy v. State, where witnesses describe a defendant being called a “God damned mother-fucking, bastardly son-of-a-bitch.”