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TIL that New Jersey's law on reckless endangerment explicitly bans manufacturing or selling "a golf ball containing acid or corrosive fluid substance."

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rV5M TIL that all modern cranes have a Fail limit: If the machine dispenses too many prizes in a given time period, it stops accepting coins and is out of order
5XVp TIL the largest mall in the world by gross leasable area is in China - and it’s 99% empty
EmeP TIL: Elon Musk went to Russia to bargain for some refurbished ICBMs to build rockets for SpaceX, he was subsequently spat on by one of the chief Russian designers and called a novice.
D11Op “At any given moment, there are 1,800 thunderstorms happening somewhere on Earth. This amounts to 16 million storms each year! We know the cloud conditions that produce lightning, but we cannot forecast the location or time of a lightning strike.”
N54b TIL there was an assassination attempt on FDR before he was initially sworn in, but the guy missed and killed the mayor of Chicago as they were shaking hands.