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

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d8EM9 TIL : Author HG Wells pretty much created the template for the modern day disaster movie with his 1897 short story "The Star". It tells of the Earths near miss with a meteor who's gravitational pull causes earthquakes, tidal waves, and the melting of the ice caps. Millions are killed.
4dQJ TIL Yawning is not contagious for children with Autism due to the inattention to facial cues rather than lack of empathy.
4vBJ TIL When Winston Churchill Traveled By Ship During WWII He Had a Lifeboat Mounted With A Machine Gun So He Could “resist capture at all costs”
VoZG TIL A researcher at Cornell University has created a robot that “evolves”. Through a clever algorithm, it spends its days creating better versions of itself
54j8 TIL In 2013 a group of Neo Nazis tried to create a compound near a small town in North Dakota. Several local Native American grandmothers raided one of the Neo Nazi rallies and stole their Nazi flag, then burned it.