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TIL That Texas has outlawed the purchase of common laboratory glassware without a permit in an anti-drug production effort

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40VJ TIL that in 2002, a fire at a girls’ school in Mecca, Saudi Arabia killed fifteen girls. It has been strongly suggested that their deaths occured due to the involvement of the “religious police,” who prevented them from leaving the building because the girls were not wearing correct Islamic dress.
kOZ9W TIL Men's Gymnastics is a Multi-Billion Dollar Industy
KY6P4 TIL Flagstaff Arizona was the world's first International Dark Sky City and you can see the Milky Way at night from downtown
LkPZQ TIL Prince Philip of is worshipped by inhabitants of some villages on the island of Tanna, Vanuatu, holding feasts on his honour and having portraits of him
N6mE TIL that big educational companies like Pearson have allowed plugs (ads) for consumer products in their standardized tests