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TIL the State of Hawaii has an "Aloha Spirit" law requiring business & government officials to act with kindness, harmoniousness, agreeability, humility, and patience

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5VrE8 TIL that poached monkeys are sometimes falsely labeled as captive-bred research animals. This is called monkey laundering.
VBB5D TIL oil does not come from dinosaurs, rather it's the remains of all the bacteria and single-celled organisms that originally ruled the world.
rLyW TIL Apollo 13 was filmed using zero-g training planes to simulate weightlessness instead of wires and CGI
7rLZP TIL Hagfish were being transported to South Korea where they are eaten as a delicacy, but instead covered the car and road in slime. Hagfish slime expands by 10,000 times in a fraction of a second. It is 100,000 times softer than Jell-O. Hagfish produce slime when attacked or stressed.
Oo4A1 TIL that the two sides in the Nigerian Civil War agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire to watch Pelé when he and his team came to visit Nigeria in 1967.