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TIL in 1915 tipping was so unpopular that 6 states made it illegal to do so.

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7r5Pb TIL the wild ancestor to domestic apples is vulnerable to extinction because the location of origin has been subject to significant loss of appropriate land to grow.
w96M TIL a Canadian native and animal trapper called Grey Owl gained prominence in the early 1900s as a respected environmental conservationist. Upon his death it was revealed that he was actually a transplanted Englishman named Archibald Belaney, who had been colouring his skin and dying his hair black.
5wMP TIL that sand tiger shark fetuses kill and eat each other in the womb. Only the strongest survives to be born ‘a metre long and already an experienced killer’
9PVr TIL Will Smith turned down playing Neo(The Matrix) to make the wild wild west.
1aWNX TIL that when you get a sunburn, it's not your skin cells being damaged by the sun's UV rays and dying, it's your skin cells' DNA being damaged by the sun's UV rays making the cells kill themselves to prevent turning into cancer