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TIL your electronic devices can be seized within 100 miles of the U.S border at any time for no reason.

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N7Yl1 Today I learned that the Apollo 12 backup crew pranked the main crew by sneaking pictures of playboy bunny models into their mission checklist with innuendo captions like "Seen any interesting hills & valleys?"
0wJ9M TIL A rare mutation among the Bajau people lets them stay underwater longer: natural selection at the PDE10A gene has increased spleen size in the Bajau, providing them with a larger reservoir of oxygenated red blood cells.
v1mrr TIL eight grizzly bear/polar bear hybrids have been confirmed in the wild, all descending from the same female polar bear.
X8L8 TIL there are more trees in North America than there were 100 years ago.
BrkaL TIL that due to relativity the core of the earth is 2.5 years younger than the crust