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

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kO4M1 TIL The actor who was inside R2-D2 hated the guy who played C-3PO, calling him "the rudest man I've ever met."
W751o TIL archaeologists in Mexico discovered a huge, lost Mayan city, which they named Valeriana.Valeriana was discovered by chance thanks to Lidar, or Light Detection and Ranging, a technology that uses lasers to map and analyze archaeological landscapes.
pElb TIL that Genghis Khan beheaded a city of over 1.75 million people because one of the citizens killed his son-in-law
OoKV6 TIL of Vedem, a Czech-language magazine produced in 1942 by boys aged 13-16 imprisoned at the Terezín concentration camp. The magazine featured things like poems, drawings, essays, and reviews, and was manually copied and distributed around. Around 800 original Vedem pages survived the war.
rRovW TIL Target has a forensics lab that's so advanced that the company regularly helps police departments free of charge.