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TIL Nunchaku (nunchuks) are illegal in Massachusetts

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E1eJ0 TIL that a fossil of a spider with an erection exists
XXYE TIL there’s a lot of plastic trash in the ocean. We dumped about five shopping bags full of plastic for every foot of coastline in the world in 2010 alone.
awYeA TIL that Diogenes "the Cynic" of Sinope, a controversial Greek philosopher, responded to Zeno's paradoxes on the impossibility of physical motion by getting up and walking away.
rNKjx TIL Moses Fleetwood walker is historically credited with being the first Black man to play in major league baseball in the 1884 season.
Eg08P TIL that the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan was the result of the network being impressed by Brooke Shields's guest appearance on Friends as Erika, Joey's stalker.