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TIL The official rules of Ping Pong allows the ball to touch your paddle hand, which includes all fingers and hand area below the wrist. But players may not touch the ball with a non-paddle hand for any reason.

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BGNe TIL that Romania’s Pre-WW2 king is still alive, and he is willing to serve as king again if the people wants him back.
Ypo1A TIL that in the UK, archaic "receiver of wreck" legislation means that if someone finds treasure underwater, they can get cash rewards - or even keep the treasure - after reporting it to the receiver.
v19e7 TIL The Apollo 11 astronauts carried small flags from 150 countries and 50 US States with them to the moon. When they returned each flag was put on a plaque with a sample of moon dust and gifted to each country. The Russian space museum in Moscow has their gift on display.
vAN7 TIL That Microsoft once had to rename the “Critical Update Notification Tool” in order to avoid the unfortunate acronym
epEo6 TIL It is said that not even Nicolaus Copernicus ever saw planet Mercury. The reason is that, as an inner planet (to Earth), it will never angularly move away more than 28 degrees from the Sun