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TIL Each year, approximately 60,000 Spanish Galgos (hunting dogs) are abandoned or tortured to death in Spain. By tradition, the dogs are often killed by hanging them by their necks with their feet just touching the ground. The more they suffer the more successful the following hunting season willbe

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d8Npd TIL On the magnitude scale, brightest objects have the smallest number and the faintest objects have the largest numbers. The full moon has a magnitude of - 12.6 while the brightness of the Sun is about -26.7
VMOZ0 TIL that in 2012, a “guru” tricked a French family out of €4.5M by convincing them that they were the target of a secret conspiracy and that their lives were in danger. He persuaded them into barricading themselves into their family chateau, and then in a suburban house in Oxford.
b0Zj TIL: For every 400 movies made in Hollywood, there are 11,000 pornos made [Link is a SFW Ted Talk]
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Y7ebd TIL the hair braid once worn by Chinese men wasn't Chinese in origin. The last Chinese dynasty, the Qing, was founded by the Manchus who conquered China & imposed their traditional hairstyle on all men. Non-compliance was punished with execution. The practice faded out after the dynasty fell in 1912