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TIL that it is illegal in the state of Michigan to seduce an unmarried woman

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9wM4X TIL that prior to 9/11, the most FDNY firefighters lost in a single day was 12. The 23rd St Fire on October 17, 1966 killed 12 Firefighters when a floor collapsed. A recent renovation to the building had removed a load-bearing wall in the basement to increase storage space for an art dealer tenant.
NXgg8 TIL of the Eleusinian Mysteries- secret rituals of ancient Greece that spanned over two millennia. They involved a special drink (kykeon), visions, and conjuring of an afterlife. Discovered in Eleusinian temples were fragments of ergot (a fungus containing psychedelic alkaloids, pre-cursors to LSD).
YWZv TIL that James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair, who voiced Mufasa and Sarabi in “The Lion King,” also played an African royal couple 6 years earlier in Eddie Murphy’s “Coming to America”
WkG8d TIL American Trillion is smaller than European Trillion.
OGeL TIL that when &%#@$ replace profanity with a #&@%ing string of typographic symbols it’s called a grawlix