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TIL hedgehogs cannot be owned as pets in California

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X6nk TIL “vegetable” is a culinary term, not a botanical term.
4X6aw That’s because it’s real. What you’re looking at is the General Electric Propulsion Test Platform, a specially modified Boeing 747-400 used to try out new jet engines. In this case, it’s testing out the huge new GE9X meant to power the next generation of Boeing 777.
gr5DD TIL that men are much more likely to be hit by lightning than women
Oo4MR TIL that it was Steve Ditko who created Marvel's classic Corner Box featuring a headshot of the title character on the cover.
X01OP TIL that the names "Arctic" and "Antarctic" comes from the Greek arktos, “bear,” because the constellation Ursa Major, “the greater she-bear” (also known as the Big Dipper), is always visible in the northern polar sky. “Antarctic,” then, means “opposite the bear.”