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TIL Bradbury, CA has a law making it illegal to be "in a state of drunkenness or intoxication to the annoyance of any other person" in private houses.

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Pvn TIL that the Peruvian president from the 1990s is of Japanese descent. He wore a kimono and brandished a samurai sword in his presidential campaign.
Rew8 TIL that in 1976, during the height of the Cold War, Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defected to the West - taking with him the highly secretive MiG-25 fighter plane.
vPjRx TIL Lobsters can be right- or left-handed – or clawed. When larval lobster settle to the bottom, their claws are identical. But within several molts, the claws become specialized. They also have clear blood that turns blue when exposed to air, due to oxidizing copper in the hemocyanin protein.
1amYD TIL Many believe the reason periodical cicadas emerge in broods at 13 or 17 year intervals (both prime numbers), it reduces the risk of predators or competitors syncing their life cycles
MG4W TIL a 2012 episode of Peppa Pig was banned from Australia as the central message that spiders were not to be feared was deemed “inappropriate for an Australian audience”