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Today I learned no NBA player has ever been born in Vermont

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xKw TIL there is a species of crabs that can grow larger than humans
R7wbw TIL that the first paramedics were 25 African Americans in Pittsburgh, trained through the Freedom House Enterprises which was a program championed by an activist and the doctor who invented CPR, in 1967.
mxekM TIL that Poland declared a full on War on the USSR in 1920 and Won
78GV7 TIL that in 2000 Andre Geim won the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for levitating a frog using magnets. In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on graphene.
Br6Ld TIL about the existence of the Kermode bear (aka the Spirit bear) which is a rare subspecies of the Black bear. 10%-20% of individuals are born white and there are only between 100 and 500 left in the wild. They are basically white Black bears.