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TIL that Russian License Plates use Cyrillic Characters, but only the ones that look like Latin Characters.

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8eboP TIL that an astronaut secretly smuggled a corned beef sandwich into space, nearly causing a disaster—and NASA was not happy about it.
x60wk TIL that despite spending so much time around it, Sea Mammals cannot see the colour blue.
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