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TIL Vermont does not require a permit to carry a concealed firearm.

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dnK7 TIL that Redbad, the last pagan King of Frisia (northern Netherlands), refused to convert to Christianity because he “preferred spending eternity in Hell with his pagan ancestors than in Heaven with his enemies.”
eppgg Today I learned that the blue component of the light spectrum is essential for phenolic compounds (flavonoids, phenolic acids, etc.) production and accumulation in higher plants. This is possible thanks to photoreceptor signaling, especially involving cryptochromes.
Ow1g TIL a Russian guy murdered his friend over argument about which graphics card was better: nVidia or AMD
VBrgp TIL that Expert systems were among the first truly successful forms of AI software.They were created in the 1970s and then proliferated in the 1980s,being then widely regarded as the future of AI — before the advent of successful artificial neural networks.
LkGdQ TIL less than 24 hours before his iconic performance at Woodstock, Joe Cocker had opened for Led Zeppelin at the Asbury Park Convention Hall.