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TIL: No One Can Stop You from Owning a Kangaroo in Three US States! Freedom Baby!

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DQGxV TIL that when someone was trapped with other skiers in an Avalanche that part of what saved them was when that person recited every line to The Princess Bride to keep everyone helpfully occupied.
pY4OG TIL of Sidney Korshak, a lawyer who was the Chicago Mafia’s main man in Los Angeles. Korshak went to his death, without so much as a criminal indictment against him, let alone a conviction.
4k6N TIL Blazing Saddles’ Governor William J Le Petomane was named after a French flatulist - a professional farter.
nrVG TIL the Quran says do not blow yourselves up.
M7Dnm TIL that Alaska actually has the easternmost point in America, which is Semisopochnoi, AK, because it is on the other side of the 180th meridian.