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TIL that a major reason Florida appears to have so many crazy people is that the state's transparency laws give the media access to all arrest reports.

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KYMy6 TIL in the UK it is illegal for non-veterinary surgeons, however qualified in the human field, to treat animals.
BPKL TIL that the English language went through a period where the sound of long vowels changed dramatically, it is known as the Great Vowel Shift and it happened ca. 1350 to 1600.
dDeXQ TIL: There used to be a three-cent piece called the "trime."
9YKX7 TIL that airport officials in Bulgaria seized two million baby eels that had been hidden in luggage. The eels, known as elvers, had been declared food items. It’s a critically endangered species and cannot be exported outside the region.
kOVJE TIL that Dwight Eisenhower once wrote that the five most important vehicles used to win WWII were the jeep, the bulldozer, the 2.5 ton truck, the DUKW amphibious car, and the C-47 transport plane, none of which are designed for combat.