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TIL that Alaska, Hawaii, Maine and Vermont have banned billboard advertising.

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4Xpew TIL the king cobra (Ophiophagus Hannah) is technically not a cobra (doesn't belong to the Naja genus). It's called the king cobra because it kills and eats other cobras.
e0N1n TIL the original British "Peelers" (police) had to be at least 5'7, 20-27 years old, and wear their uniform even when off-duty. They couldn't vote, and needed permission to marry or even eat with a civilian.
0dZLp TIL The Kremlin had such a hard time with computer security that in 2013 they bought typewriters to prevent leaks.
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X0g1E TIL the number of Indian seamen employed on UK ships was so great that the British tried to restrict this by the Navigation Acts in force from 1660, which required that 75 percent of the crew of a British-registered ship importing goods from Asia had to be British.