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TIL that Hyder, Alaska uses Canadian electricity, a Canadian area code, Canadian police, and mostly Canadian currency; you need a passport to travel from Hyder to the rest of the United States, but not to travel from Canada to Hyder.

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ep0mn TIL that Alan Turing (cryptographer responsible for breaking the Nazi Enigma code during World War II) was also an Olympic-level runner and he developed a new field of biology out of his fascination with daisies.
OGaGa TIL the crews of Apollo 11, 12, and 14 had to spend 3 weeks in quarantine after returning to Earth because of the possibility that they might spread contagions from the moon
X0JAD TIL that until 1773, Harvard University graduates were ranked not by academic merit but according to their birth status or rank of their parents.
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