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TIL The penalty for killing an elephant in Sri Lanka is death

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xVv45 TIL of Season Shot - a Shotgun shell containing spices and seasoning that seasons a duck on impact.
NRMN TIL a man almost went to jail for child porn on his work issued laptop. He only got off after they found that the PC visited as many as 40 child porn sites a minute even while he was nowhere near it.
PY8vg TIL Charles Schulz always disliked the title of Peanuts, which was given to his comic strip by the syndicate. In a 1987 interview, Schulz said of it: "It's totally ridiculous, has no meaning, is simply confusing, and has no dignity—and I think my humor has dignity."
69LyQ TIL Calama, Chile (pop 147,886) has an average annual precipitation of 5 mm (0.20 inches). For comparison - Dubai has an annual precipitation of 79.2 mm (3.12 inches).
VBN5D TIL, we were sending men into space, and nearly sent man to the moon, before we discovered what plate tectonics were. We didn’t know how mountains or earthquakes happened until 1966