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TIL Happy Hour Is Banned In These 9 States

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y4Ja TIL: Jesus’ name translated from Hebrew to English would be ‘Joshua’. We get the name 'Jesus’ by translating the Hebrew name to Greek to Latin to English.
D1eBY TIL that the International Space Station has been described as the most expensive single item ever constructed at $150 billion.
LQM6d Today I learned the Panhellenic Games is the collective term for four separate sports festivals held in ancient Greece. The four Games were the Olympic, Pythian, Nemean and the Isthmian games.
J1Y1k TIL that 40% of Finnish POWs captured by the Red Army during WWII died in captivity.
E1xaX TIL alligators will allow themselves to be frozen in place in a pond to survive freezing temperatures. They seem to know instinctively just when the water will freeze and stick their noses out of the water, allowing the water to freeze around them.