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TIL incest is legal in Rhode Island

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wL4PE TIL "Spandau" was the manufacturer of Nazi machine guns - when the weapon was fired at someone's shins they would dance around, in a "Spandau Ballet"
ZQpD TIL that lightning can cause red, jellyfish-shaped flashes as big as 48 by 48 km to appear above thunderclouds. These are called sprites (air spirits), after their elusiveness, and are actually clusters of balls of plasma.
WkWDd TIL Anastasia, daughter of the last Tsar of Russia, supposedly escaped execution during the Russian Revolution. The story inspired books and imposters. Scientific analysis (incl. DNA analysis) now confirms she died in 1918. Remains included the imperial family and all four grand duchesses.
EgdKp TIL that God killed a man because he refused to impregnate his dead brother's wife.
N7Ld6 TIL about Xenophon Zolotas, a Greek scholar and politician, who gave two speeches in English to the IMF using nothing but Greek loanwords.