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

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GApNj TIL roughly half of the Dutch workforce works part-time.
A11o TIL “Run” is the word with the most different meanings. The verb-form alone has no fewer than 645 meanings and Peter Gilliver worked for more than nine months to work out all of them.
8DnV TIL the Energizer bunny was intended to be a parody of Duracell, which advertised using a pink bunny mascot as early as the 70s (15 years before Energizer). However, Energizer got the trademark first, and last year sued Duracell for selling their original pink bunny packaging in some US stores.
Y7a7G TIL the original title of Hellraiser apparently was going to be "Sadomasochists From Beyond The Grave"
gWOX TIL in all Japanese schools they run an emergency drill where a police officer dressed as an assailant freely runs around campus and tries to attack students with a realistic-looking plastic knife, while the teachers coordinate a defense to subdue him.