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TIL that using Skype in Ethiopia carries a 15 year maximum jail term

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bxlp TIL two high school students rode their horses to school on ‘no vehicles to school day’, and were suspended
nLrP TIL China sent seeds into space to see the effects of cosmic radiation on DNA. Some of the seeds had very useful mutations after being sent up.
p8OPb TIL On August 23, 2017 Rich Hill pitched nine no-hit innings, only to lose the game on a walk-off home run by Josh Harrison in the 10th inning. The perfect game was broken up by a ninth-inning error, for the first time in MLB history. Only 303 no-hitters have been thrown in MLB history since 1876.
GQDE TIL Demetri Martin wrote a full length poem that is also a palindrome.
kNbe TIL in 2015 a teenager died on first day at work when he fell into a wood chipper. The scene was so horrific that his boss at a heart attack on the scene.