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TIL that in Ukraine, Christmas is celebrated with a twelve course meal, but can't begin to eat until the youngest child watches for the first evening star to appear.

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xVyy1 TIL the axolotl can regenerate its limbs and parts of its brain. Its genome is also 10 times larger than the human genome. Today, scientists study the axolotl as a model of limb regeneration in vertebrates. There are only about 1,000 left in the wild.
VMAj8 TIL In 2011 Samoa skipped from being the last to first country to see the sun each day. So now they celebrate New year's first. They did it to be more inline with NZ & Australia for commercial reasons
AmVg TIL James Blunt put his sister on eBay as a “damsel in distress” when she couldn’t get to a funeral. the guy who won had a helicopter. He flew her to the funeral. Three years later they were getting married
Z8XwB TIL of the Kudirka Incident: a Soviet sailor swam from his ship and attempted to defect with the American Coast Guard. Not knowing the protocol for granting asylum, the Coast Guard eventually allowed the Soviets onto their vessel, where they arrested him and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.
KOOjB Modern aircraft have two recorders– one that monitors comms, the other flight instruments. The black boxes are now orange. If the plane does crash, it's easier to find in the wreckage.