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TIL hedgehogs cannot be owned as pets in California

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QJkKa TIL American English spellings like "color" and "center" were first published by Noah Webster as an effort to simplify what he thought were unnecessarily complex spelling rules.
7r8dZ TIL as a child, martial arts actor Jet Li was asked by Richard Nixon to be his personal bodyguard. Li replied, "I don't want to protect any individual. When I grow up, I want to defend my one billion Chinese countrymen!"
9gbX TIL: That the USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned ship still in active service.
DjjJ TIL the kindness of the allied forces accidentally killed some Holocaust survivors. Upon being liberated, the soldiers brought food to the severely emaciated survivors. The problem is people who are that emaciated can’t handle large amounts of food so quickly. It ended up killing them.
axD0 TIL an animated movie about Vincent van Gogh is slated to be the first fully-painted feature-length film in the world (connecting 56,800 stop-motion paintings)