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TIL Baboons can distinguish real words from non-words based upon the arrangement of letters

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Y799P TIL If Groundhog Day falls on Sun Pennsylvania bars can legally open at 7am
P19yG TIL: A high school pitcher from Brenham, Texas won a record 53 straight games and, in 1989, was the first high schooler to make the cover of Sport Illustrated. His winning streak ended immediately after he appeared in SI. It was the only game he lost in his high school pitching career.
Awd4 TIL of Operation Choke Point. The Justice Department unfairly targets Porn Companies, Gun Dealers, and other legal businesses it doesn’t like and pressures banks not to do business with them
v1nBj TIL that while Icelanders usually have last names consisting of -son (son) or -dóttir (daughter) suffixed to their father's given name, non-binary Icelanders are now allowed to have gender-neutral last names using the suffix -bur (child) instead.
R7B08 TIL That Bamboo is not a type of wood, but a type of grass despite commonly being sold as a 'wooden worktop' or a type of 'wood flooring'.