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TIL that it's illegal to possess koi fish in Maine.

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pYBx4 TIL about the bald-hairy pattern: a consistent pattern in which bald rulers of Russ|a are always replaced by hairy ones, and vice versa.
ne6jP TIL that The International Space station is closer to the earth than San Francisco is to L.A.
9wyeG TIL that the Torino scale is a method for categorizing the impact hazard associated with near-Earth objects such as asteroids and comets. YR4 was rated as a 3 on the Torino scale, with a 1-in-42 (2.4%) chance of impacting Earth on 22 December 2032.
7yMx TIL that Bluetooth is named after 10th Century king Harald Bluetooth who united Danish tribes into a single kingdom, and that the Bluetooth logo is made of the runes for his initials.
4kVZw TIL the theory that Slavs exterminated the Greeks from Greece, meaning modern Greeks are entirely unrelated to Ancient Greeks, is not supported by recent DNA analysis.