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TIL the code "HTTP 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons" is named after Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, in which books were illegal and burned. This error can appear when the requested information cannot be shown for legal reasons, such as the web page being censored by the government.

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eNeD TIL In Finland, nearly every newborn is sent home with a free, government-issued cardboard box. It contains clothes, blankets, and other newborn necessities, and the Baby Box itself - which is lined with a mattress - can be used as the child’s first bed.
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R5b94 TIL that the 1918 Flu was definitively connected to Influenza virus using a remarkably preserved body in Alaska, that still had remnants of Flu RNA which was sequenced and recreated.
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OmL TIL that On a TV show, a 17-year-old girl revealed that her father had killed three people and it turned out to be true…