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TIL: In Arkansas you can legally catch and keep a wild fox

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PYPkV TIL that in 2009 identical twins Hassan and Abbas O. were suspects in a $6.8 million jewelry heist. DNA matching the twins was found but they had to be released citing "we can deduce that at least one of the brothers took part in the crime, but it has not been possible to determine which one."
9XLB TIL the color of the plastic tag on bread actually means something. They indicate the day of the week on which the loaf was baked: Monday - Blue, Tuesday - Green, Thursday - Red, Friday - White, Saturday - Yellow.
PYMaJ TIL how the UK military recruiter mistook "cryptogamist" (algae expert) for "cryptogramist" and sent Geoffrey Tandy to join the code breakers; he wasn't so useful until captured German papers arrived water-logged; with his expertise they salvaged them, cracked the code, and hastened the victory.
X0nKX TIL Laryy Lessig wrote a book about copyright and how Disney orchestrated lengthening copyright over 90 times in a century and effectively stealing you rights for published works.
JYlPk TIL Smokejumpers are specially trained wildland firefighters who provide an initial attack response on remote wildland fires.