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kJdnB TIL there are 7 states where its legal to own a pet bear
4dON TIL despite the existence of the Pan-American Highway, it is not possible to drive between South America and Central America in a normal passenger car. Swamps, indigenous peoples, FARC rebels, and environmental considerations have left the 100-km “Darién Gap” undeveloped.
kOWde TIL that Sammy Byrd is the only person to have played in a World Series of baseball and competed in golf's Masters Tournament.
RZQj TIL that the reason many windows are blocked or bricked-up on older buildings in England is because there used to be a tax on windows.
6EMMX TIL Banach-Tarski Paradox: if you accept as true the Axiom of choice (i.e. from non-empty set you can always pick up a random element) then you could decompose a golden sphere into a finite number of pieces and, without any strecthing, reassemble these into two balls identical to the original one.