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TIL: You can only bring five speficic fruits on a plane to the EU - Coconuts, Durians, Pineapples, Dates and Bananas

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dDDjZ TIL Johnny Yong Bosch became a voice actor by accident. He had to dub over his lines for a film after an audio production issue and a producer said he had a good “hero voice” and asked him to audition for an animation. A few weeks after that audition he booked the role of Vash in the anime Trigun.
x6oN7 TIL that unlike most hybrid animals, pizzly bears (offspring of polar and grizzly bears) can successfully breed.
ZdW4 TIL: When the Apollo 8 astronauts were sued by an atheist activist for reading from Genesis in lunar orbit, the Supreme Court threw out the case. Their reason? “Lack of jurisdiction” in orbit around the Moon.
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