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TIL thermal and night vision sniper scopes are illegal in California

Read more leginfo.legislature.ca.gov

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RdN7 TIL the farthest distance into space humans have traveled was reached during the Apollo 13 emergency.
nWJgY TIL that Xerox scanners sometimes used to randomly substitute digits in scanned documents, e.g. turning 6s into 8s. The issue was discovered and fixed in 2013 but old scanners might still be affected.
R7Maj TIL that jellyfish have developed the most efficient form of swimming among all animals. They manage to achieve a 48% lower cost of movement than other aquatic animals.
x6rQB TIL Hudson Soft, despite making the TurboGrafx16 to compete with the Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis, made games for the Super Nintendo & Sega Genesis during the time their console was out.
11WX TIL that enough technology exists right now to create a solar-powered colony on the moon.