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TIL It’s illegal to own pet hamsters in Hawaii.

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JYjyk TIL Canadians are entitled to receive a free flag from the government ($150 value), but the waiting period is 99 years
D1E1p TIL the 35-yr-old owner of a boat called "Naut Guilty" was found not guilty in a boating incident. Another man was at the helm who failed to put the boat into neutral as a 19-yr-old woman swam near the boat; she lost her arm in the propeller. Both men pleaded guilty to furnishing alcohol to minors.
wLan6 TIL Persistence of a 12-year old boy led to clearing the name of the USS Indianapolis' captain more than 50 years after the tragedy. The Congress passed a Sense of Congress resolution exonerating the captain.
7oVb TIL that in high school, Chris Paul’s grandfather was murdered on the eve of his season opener. He went on to score 61 points, one for each year his grandfather lived.
xVNYb TIL... Of First and Second Sleep.In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month.They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before falling into a second four-hour sleep.