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TIL The government of Bermuda has a Feral Chicken Management Plan to reduce the number of the invasive species

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Me41K TIL that same-sex sexual activity is punishable by death in Iran, but Iranians can get a state-sponsored sex change operation to avoid punishment. Iran performs more sex reassignment surgeries than any other country in the world after Thailand.
bvGj TIL Skyhook from The Dark Knight is a real thing developed for the CIA in the 1950’s and used until the mid 1990’s.
780nL TIL that Vanadium is one of the most effective spermicides discovered. Most spermicides irritate the vaginal wall. Not vanadium. It sneaks inside the sperm and snaps off the tail so it can't swim without external irritation. However, it also messes with blood sugar levels and turns the tongue green.
oR9gW TIL Admiral Sir John Fisher proposed twice in 1904 and in 1908 to "Copenhagen" (pre-emptively strike) the Imperial German Navy
LQopp TIL that 75% of Canadian English-language TV shows are from the US. By contrast, the top ten TV shows in Quebec are all local productions. While French Canadians love watching American films dubbed in English, they prefer low-budget Quebec TV shows (téléromans) to big-budget American ones.